About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.

List of Fellows of the Royal Society

A,B,C	D,E,F	G,H,I	J,K,L	M,N,O	P,Q,R	S,T,U,V	W,X,Y,Z

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Name	Election Date
John Vivian Dacie John Vivian Dacie Sir John Vivian Dacie, FRS was a British haematologist.He was born in Putney, London and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, after which he studied medicine at Kings College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1936.He had house jobs at King's College Hospital, the Royal Postgraduate...	16/03/1967	20 July 1912 – 12 February 2005 Haemotologist, Royal Medical School, London
Henry Dagge	11/03/1779	c 1715 -
Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton FRS was a British academic chemist and university administrator.A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and...	21/03/1957	11 November 1914 - 5 December 1997
John Bourke Dainton	09/05/2002	Physicist, Liverpool University
Henry Drysdale Dakin Henry Drysdale Dakin Henry Drysdale Dakin FRS was an English chemist.He was born in London as the youngest of 8 children to a family of steel merchants from Leeds. As a school boy he did water analysis with the Leeds City Analyst. He studied chemistry at the University of Leeds with Julius B...	3/05/1917	12 March 1880 - 10 February 1952 Fellow 3/05/1917
William Ernest Dalby William Dalby (engineer) Professor William Ernest Dalby, FRS was a British engineer.At the age of 14 he started work in the Stratford Locomotive Works of the Great Eastern Railway. In 1884 he moved to work in the Crewe Works of the London and North Western Railway as Chief Assistant in the Permanent Way Department...	01/05/1913	21 December 1862 - 25 June 1936 engineer, Imperial College, London
Henry Hallett Dale Henry Hallett Dale Sir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...	07/05/1914	9 June 1875 - 23 July 1968 PRS 1940-1945
Alexander Dalgarno Alexander Dalgarno Alexander Dalgarno is a British physicist who is Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.-Biography:He was educated in mathematics and atomic physics at University College, London. He was an academic at the Queen's University of Belfast and moved to Harvard in 1967...	16/03/1972
Richard Henry Dalitz	24/03/1960	28 February 1925 - 13 January 2006
William Henry Dallinger	03/06/1880	5 July 1842 - 7 November 1909
John Charles Dalrymple-Hay	02/06/1864	12 February 1821 - 28 January 1912
Alexander Dalrymple Alexander Dalrymple Alexander Dalrymple was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita...	14/02/1771	24 July 1737 - 19 June 1808
John Dalrymple John Dalrymple (physician) John Dalrymple FRS was an English ophthalmologist who was born in Norwich, the son of William Dalrymple. In 1827 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently became an eye surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital.He was elected assistant-surgeon in 1832 and full surgeon...	07/06/1849	1803 - 2 May 1852
John Dalrymple John Dalrymple (admiral) John Dalrymple was an officer of the Royal Navy. He became a fellow of the Royal Society.He entered the Royal Navy as a Captain's servant aboard . He passed his examinations for promotion to lieutenant in 1744. He commanded a sloop in 1757; and he was promoted to post-captain in 1758. He was...	26/05/1796
Henry Dalton	20/06/1816	fl 1816
Howard Dalton Howard Dalton Sir Howard Dalton, FRS was a British microbiologist.He was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2002 to September 2007....	11/03/1993
John Dalton John Dalton John Dalton FRS was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness .-Early life:John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland,...	07/03/1822	6 September 1766 - 27 July 1844
Keith Dalziel Keith Dalziel Professor Keith Dalziel, F.R.S. was a British biochemist. He was born in Salford, and spent the greater part of his scientific career at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. He worked primarily on liver alcohol dehydrogenases, and is well known in enzymology as the...	20/03/1975	24 August 1921 - 7 January 1994
Marie Charles Theodore, Baron de Damoiseau Marie-Charles Damoiseau Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort was a French astronomer.Damoiseau left France during the French Revolution and worked as assistant director of the Lisbon Observatory. He returned to France in 1807.In 1825, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences...	09/06/1832	9 April 1768 - 8 August 1846
William Cecil Dampier William Cecil Dampier Sir William Cecil Dampier was a British scientist, agriculturist, and science historian who developed a method of extracting lactose from whey....	06/06/1901	27 December 1867 - 11 December 1952 Physicist, formerly William Cecil Dampier Whetham
Peter Victor Danckwerts Peter Victor Danckwerts Peter Victor Danckwerts GC, MBE, FRS was Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University from 1959 to 1977 and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge....	20/03/1969	14 October 1916 - 25 October 1984
Edmund Robert Daniell	05/06/1828
John Frederic Daniell John Frederic Daniell John Frederic Daniell was an English chemist and physicist.Daniell was born in London, and in 1831 became the first professor of chemistry at the newly founded King's College London. His name is best known for his invention of the Daniell cell , an electric battery much better than voltaic cells...	05/05/1814	12 March 1790 - 13 March 1845
James Frederic Danielli James Danielli James Frederic Danielli was an English biologist.He was famous for research on the structure and the permeability of cell membranes, developing a physical-chemical model in collaboration with the physiologist Hugh Davson. This became known as the Davson-Danielli or "protein sandwich" model...	21/03/1957	13 November 1911 - 22 April 1984
Henry Ellis Daniels	20/03/1980	2 October 1912 - 16 April 2000, President of the Royal Statistical Society President of the Royal Statistical Society The President of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society , elected biannually by the Fellows of the Society. ....  (1980)
Joseph Danvers	30/11/1724	c 1697 - ? 26 October 1753
James Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Navan	05/06/1729	c 1707 - 15 June 1733
James Dargent	17/03/1768	c 1724 -
John Darker	05/05/1768	c 1722 - 8 February 1784
Cyril Dean Darlington	20/03/1941	19 December 1903 - 26 March 1981
Charles Robert Darwin	24/01/1839	12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882
Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...	09/04/1761	12 December 1731 - 18 April 1802, physician, poet, inventor (grandfather of Charles Darwin)
Robert Waring Darwin	21/02/1788	30 May 1766 - 13 November 1848
Charles Galton Darwin Charles Galton Darwin Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...	11/05/1922	19 December 1887 - 31 December 1962
Francis Darwin Francis Darwin Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin, FRS , a son of the British naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, followed his father into botany.-Biography:Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848...	08/06/1882	16 August 1848 - 19 September 1925
George Howard Darwin	12/06/1879	9 July 1845 - 7 December 1912
Horace Darwin Horace Darwin Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS , a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.He was...	11/06/1903	13 May 1851 - 22 September 1928
Partha Sarathi Dasgupta	27/05/2004
Pavel Michailovich, Prince Dashkov	08/02/1781	12 May 1763 - 1807
Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron Le Despencer Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer and founder of the Hellfire Club.-Early life:...	19/06/1746	December 1708 - 11 December 1781
Naomi Datta Naomi Datta Naomi Datta, FRS was a distinguished British geneticist. Working at Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s she identified horizontal gene transfer as a source of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacteria....	21/03/1985
Louis Jean Marie Daubenton	09/01/1755	29 May 1716 - 1 January 1800
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny	19/12/1822	12 February 1795 - 13 December 1867
Peter Davall	23/10/1740
Edward Davies Davenport	30/05/1839	c 1779 - 9 September 1847
Harold Davenport Harold Davenport Harold Davenport FRS was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory.-Early life:...	14/03/1940	30 October 1907 - 9 June 1969
Horace Davey, Baron Davey Horace Davey, Baron Davey Horace Davey, Baron Davey QC was an English judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1892.-Background and education:...	24/01/1895	30 August 1833 - 20 February 1907
Tannatt William Edgeworth David	14/06/1900	28 January 1858 - 28 August 1934
Charles Rundle Davidson	07/05/1931	28 February 1875 - 18 June 1970
James Norman Davidson	24/03/1960	5 March 1911 - 11 September 1972
John Davidson	04/06/1835	23 December 1797 - 18 December 1836
John Frank Davidson John Frank Davidson John Frank Davidson is a British chemical engineer and former Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge.-Early life:He attended Heaton Grammar School in Heaton, Newcastle...	21/03/1974
Thomas Davidson	11/06/1857	17 May 1817 - 16 December 1885
Jacques Daviel Jacques Daviel Jacques Daviel was a French ophthalmologist credited with originating the first significant advance in cataract surgery since couching was invented in ancient India...	18/03/1756	August 1696 - 30 September 1762
Alwyn George Davies	16/03/1989
David Evan Naunton Davies David (DEN) Davies David Evan Naunton Davies, known as Den Davies or David 'DEN' Davies, is a British electrical engineer and educator.1985-1988: Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London , and holder of the Pender Chair, having already been lecturing there, in...	15/03/1984
Donald Watts Davies	19/03/1987	7 June 1924 - 28 May 2000
Edward Brian Davies	09/03/1995	British Mathematician
Griffith Davies Griffith Davies Griffith Davies was a noted actuary.Davies, son of Owen Davies, farmer and quarryman , was born at the foot of Cilgwyn mountain, in the parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon, on 28 Dec. 1788. He was taught to read and spell at a Welsh Sunday school. At the age of seven he commenced learning English at a...	16/06/1831	28 December 1788 - 21 March 1855
Jonathan Davies	02/04/1789	1736 - 5 December 1809 Headmaster of Eton College
Julian Edmund Davies	10/03/1994	Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Kay Elizabeth Davies Kay Davies Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies, DBE, FRS is a British human geneticist.She is the Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University and a fellow of Hertford College...	15/05/2003
Nicholas Barry Davies	10/03/1994
Richard Davies	08/06/1738	c 1708 - December 1761 Physician
Robert Ernest Davies	17/03/1966	17 August 1919 - 7 March 1993 Biochemist
Rodney Deane Davies	12/03/1992
Thomas Davies	08/03/1781	1737 - 16 March 1812
Thomas Stephens Davies Thomas Stephens Davies Thomas Stephens Davies was a British mathematician.Davies made his earliest communications to the Leeds Correspondent in July 1817 and the Gentleman's Diary for 1819...	18/04/1833	1795 - 6 January 1851
Pedro Franco Davila	06/06/1776
Hart Davis	20/05/1841
Joseph Barnard Davis	04/06/1868	13 June 1801 - 19 May 1881
Richard Hart Davis	23/04/1812	c 1767 - 19 February 1842
Roger John Davis	09/05/2002
Samuel Davis	28/06/1792
John Francis Davis John Francis Davis Sir John Francis Davis, 1st Baronet KCB was a British diplomat, Sinologist, and the 2nd Governor of Hong Kong. He was the son of Samuel Davis and nephew to William Thomas Mercer .-Early career:John Davis was appointed writer in East India Company's factory at Canton in 1813...	28/03/1822	16 July 1795 - ? 12 November 1890
Alan Davison	11/05/2000
Edmund Davy Edmund Davy Edmund Davy FRS was a professor of Chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and professor of chemistry at the Royal Dublin Society from 1826. He discovered acetylene, as it was later named by Marcellin Berthelot...	19/01/1826	1785 - 5 November 1857
John Davy John Davy (chemist) John Davy FRS was a British doctor, amateur chemist, and brother of the noted chemist Sir Humphry Davy, and cousin of Edmund Davy....	17/02/1814	24 May 1790 - 24 January 1868
Martin Davy	23/04/1801	1763 - 18 May 1839
Humphry Davy Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine...	17/11/1803	17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829, PRS 1820-1827
Geoffrey Sharman Dawes	18/03/1971	21 January 1918 - 6 May 1996
William Rutter Dawes William Rutter Dawes William Rutter Dawes was an English astronomer.Dawes was born in West Sussex, the son of William Dawes, also an astronomer, who travelled to the colony of New South Wales on the First Fleet in 1788....	01/06/1865	20 March 1799 - 15 February 1868
Henry Dawkins	05/11/1778	c 1728 - 19 June 1814
James Dawkins	09/03/1815	1760 -
James Dawkins	23/01/1755	1722 - December 1757
Richard Clinton Dawkins Richard Dawkins Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...	10/05/2001	evolutionary biologist
William Boyd Dawkins William Boyd Dawkins Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man...	06/06/1867	26 December 1837 - 15 January 1929
Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe Henry Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Pleydell Dawnay, 3rd Viscount Downe FRS , was a British soldier and politician.Dawnay was the eldest son of the Honourable John Dawnay, son of Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe. His mother was Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Robert Pleydell, of Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire...	06/12/1750	8 April 1727 - 9 December 1760
George Mercer Dawson George Mercer Dawson Dr. George Mercer Dawson F.R.S., C.M.G., was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the eldest son of Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University and his wife, Lady Margaret Dawson...	04/06/1891	3 February 1849 - 2 March 1901
Harry Medforth Dawson	11/05/1933	11 November 1875 - 11 March 1939
Rex Malcolm Chaplin Dawson	19/03/1981
John William Dawson John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC , was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.- Life and work :...	05/06/1862	13 October 1820 - 19 November 1899
George Edward Day	06/06/1850	4 August 1815 - 31 January 1872
John Day	06/06/1793	c 1738 - 14 June 1808 Advocate, India
Nicholas Edward Day	27/05/2004
Peter Day	20/03/1986
Thomas Day	30/11/1691	c 1656 - c 1696 Barrister
Solomon Dayrolles Solomon Dayrolles -Life:Dayrolles was the nephew and heir of James Dayrolles, king's resident for some time at Geneva, and from 1717 to 1739 at The Hague, who died on 2 January 1739, was the godson of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, the wit and politician, through whose friendship the young official...	16/06/1743
George Edward Raven Deacon	16/03/1944	21 March 1906 - 16 November 1984
William Dealtry William Dealtry William Dealtry was an English clergyman of evangelical views, who became archdeacon of Surrey and a Fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:...	28/02/1811	August 1775 - 15 October 1847
Caroline Dean Caroline Dean Caroline Dean, OBE, FRS is a British plant scientist working at the John Innes Centre. She has made discoveries related to the timing of flowering in plants. In 2004 she became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Fellow of the Royal Society...	27/05/2004
Anthony Deane	06/04/1681	3 December 1633 – 11 June 1721
William Deane William Deane Sir William Patrick Deane, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:William Deane was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in...	17/11/1814
Geoffrey Dearnaley	11/03/1993
Heinrich Debus Heinrich Debus (chemist) Heinrich Debus was a German chemist.-Education and career:In 1938, he attended a trade school in Kassel, where he was taught by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. He studied chemistry from 1845 to 1848 in Marburg, and served as Bunsen's assistant from 1847. In 1848, he earned his doctorate by investigating a...	06/06/1861	13 July 1824 - 9 November 1915 Chemistry Professor, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Philip Ivor Dee	20/03/1941	8 April 1904 - 17 April 1983
William Alexander Deer William Alexander Deer William Alexander Deer was a British geologist.He was an Honorary Fellow of St John's College and Trinity Hall Cambridge, Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Cambridge from 1961, Master of Trinity Hall from 1966 to 1975, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1971...	15/03/1962
Simon Degge Simon Degge Sir Simon Degge was born in Staffordshire but settled in Derby. He became a High Sheriff of Derbyshire. It was said that he served his year as Sheriff in "barrister robes and with a sword by his side". Degge was a Royalist and wrote a reference book on the law and rights of a parson called the...	14/05/1730	1697 - c 1765
Simon Degge Simon Degge Sir Simon Degge was born in Staffordshire but settled in Derby. He became a High Sheriff of Derbyshire. It was said that he served his year as Sheriff in "barrister robes and with a sword by his side". Degge was a Royalist and wrote a reference book on the law and rights of a parson called the...	02/05/1723	c 1694 - 8 November 1729
Conrad D'Alev a Dehn, Count Dehn	06/11/1729	1688–1753
Antoine Deidier	14/11/1723	? 1696 - 30 April 1746
Joseph Delafield	02/04/1835
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre	05/05/1791	19 September 1749 - 19 August 1822
Edward Hussey Delaval Edward Delaval Edward Hussey Delaval was a scholar and scientist. He shared the 1766 Copley Medal where he was cited for his research on metals and glass. His interest in glass included its use in music. His performances on musical glasses became well-known, and may have inspired Benjamin Franklin's glass...	06/12/1759	June 1729 - 14 August 1814
John Delaval, 4th Earl of Tyrconnel John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell GCH, FRS was a British peer. He served with the North York Corps of Yeomanry.-Background:Carpenter was the eldest son of Charles & Elizabeth Carpenter...	09/01/1834	16 December 1790 - ? 25 June 1853
Anne Dell Anne Dell Anne Dell CBE FRS is an Australian biochemist. She specialises in the study of glycomics and the carbohydrate structures that modify proteins. She is currently Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry at Imperial College London....	09/05/2002
David Thomas Delpy	13/05/1999
Kenneth George Denbigh	18/03/1965	30 May 1911 – 23 January 2004
Arthur Dendy	07/05/1908	20 January 1865 - 24 March 1925
Dixon Denham Dixon Denham Dixon Denham was an English explorer in West Central Africa.Denham was born in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and was articled to a solicitor, but joined the army in 1811...	08/06/1826	1 January 1786 - 8 May 1828
Joshua Frederick Denham	20/05/1841	c 1801 - 26 January 1861
Henry Mangles Denham Henry Mangles Denham Vice Admiral Sir Henry Mangles Denham, CMG was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.-Early career:...	28/02/1839	28 August 1800 - 3 July 1887
John Denham John Denham (poet) Sir John Denham was an English poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey....	20/05/1663	1615 - March 1669 Original, poet and Surveyor of the King's Works Office of Works The Office of Works was established in the English Royal household in 1378 to oversee the building of the royal castles and residences. In 1832 it became the Works Department within the Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings...
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, KCH, FRS, FSA was a British Liberal Party politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham from 1816-49.-Early life and career:...	13/06/1850	21 October 1805 - 15 January 1860
William Thomas Denison	22/02/1838	3 May 1804 - 19 January 1871
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman PC KC was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice between 1832 and 1850.-Background and education:Denman was born in London, the son of Dr Thomas Denman...	20/06/1833	24 February 1779 - 22 September 1854
Charles Enrique Dent Charles Enrique Dent Charles Enrique Dent was a British biochemist.He was born in Burgos, Spain, son of Leeds-born Frankland Dent and his Spanish wife Carmen de Mira y Perceval. His father was the government Chemist in Singapore but his wife went home to Spain for the birth. The family later moved back to England and...	15/03/1962	25 August 1911 - 19 September 1976
Frederick James Dent	16/03/1967	12 October 1905 - 5 October 1973
John Dent	16/05/1811	1760–1826
Derek Ashworth Denton	13/05/1999
John Douglas Denton	11/05/2000	Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University
Richard Michael Denton	14/05/1998	Professor of Biochemistry, Bristol University.
Eric James Denton Eric James Denton Sir Eric James Denton CBE, FRS, was a British marine biologist who won the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1987. He was the Director of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory in Plymouth between 1974 and 1987.-References:...	19/03/1964	3 September 1923 – 2 January 2007
Thomas Dereham	03/11/1720	c 1678 - 16 January 1739
William Derham William Derham William Derham was an English clergyman and natural philosopher. He produced the earliest, reasonably accurate estimate of the speed of sound.-Life:...	03/02/1703	26 November 1657 - 5 April 1735
John Theophilus Desaguliers John Theophilus Desaguliers John Theophilus Desaguliers was a natural philosopher born in France. He was a member of the Royal Society of London beginning 29 July 1714. He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, with the 1741 award being for his discovery of the...	29/07/1714	12 March 1683 - 29 February 1744
Thomas Desaguliers	24/02/1780	5 January 1721 - 1 March 1780
Cecil Henry Desch	03/05/1923	7 September 1874 - 19 June 1958
Pierre Deslongchamps	17/03/1983
Peter Desmaizeaux	03/11/1720	? 1672 - 11 July 1745 Born France 1666 "Man of Letters"
Denis Henry Desty Denis Henry Desty Denis Henry Desty FRS was a British scientist and inventor, known primarily for his work in the fields of chromatography and combustion science....	15/03/1984	21 October 1923 - 18 January 1994
David Elieser Deutsch David Deutsch David Elieser Deutsch, FRS is an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford...	16/5/2008	1953
Samuel Devons Samuel Devons Samuel Devons FRS was a British physicist and science historian.-Biography:Devons, son of a Lithuanian immigrant, was born in Bangor, Wales. When he turned 16, he was awarded a scholarship for physics at Trinity College in Cambridge...	17/03/1955	30 September 1914 – 6 December 2006
Michael James Stewart Dewar	24/03/1960	24 September 1918 - 10 October 1997
James Dewar James Dewar Sir James Dewar FRS was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases...	07/06/1877	20 September 1842 - 27 March 1923
John Frederick Dewey John Frederick Dewey John Frederick Dewey is a British structural geologist and a strong proponent of the theory of plate tectonics, building upon the early work undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s...	21/03/1985
Thomas Michael Dexter	14/03/1991
Thomas Frognall Dibdin Thomas Frognall Dibdin Thomas Frognall Dibdin , English bibliographer, born at Calcutta, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of Charles Dibdin....	22/03/1821	1776 - 18 November 1847
Frank Dickens	21/03/1946	15 December 1899 - 25 June 1986 Biochemist, Courtauld Institute, London
Edmund Dickenson	31/01/1678	26 September 1624 - 3 April 1707
John Dickenson	17/03/1814	c 1755 - 11 January 1842
George Dickie George Dickie George Dickie is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago and is an influential philosopher of art working in the analytical tradition...	02/06/1881	23 November 1812 - 15 July 1882
Ambrose Dickins	01/11/1722	c 1687 - 25 August 1747
Anthony Dickinson	15/05/2003
Charles Dickinson	27/11/1800	fl 1800
John Dickinson	06/03/1845	29 March 1782 - 11 January 1869
Joseph Dickinson	01/06/1854	1812 - 21 July 1865 Physician & Botanist
Thomas Dickson	10/05/1770	1726 - 1 June 1784 Physioian
Johann Adolph, Baron von Diescau	05/04/1716
John Francis Xavier Diffley	26/05/2005
Kenelm Digby Kenelm Digby Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".-Early life and career:He was born at Gayhurst,...	22/04/1663	11 July 1603 - 11 June 1665 Original
Joannes Jacobus Dillenius	25/06/1724	1687 - 2 April 1747
Lewis Weston Dillwyn Lewis Weston Dillwyn Lewis Weston Dillwyn, FRS was a British porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and Member of Parliament.He was born in Walthamstow, Essex, the eldest son of William Dillwyn and Sarah Dillwyn...	02/02/1804	21 August 1778 - 31 August 1855
Nathaniel Dimsdale	21/11/1805	11 April 1748 - 3 July 1811
Thomas Dimsdale	16/03/1769	? 6 May 1712 - 30 December 1800
William Henry Dines William Henry Dines William Henry Dines BA FRS was an English meteorologist.Dines was born in London, the son of George Dines, also a meteorologist. He was educated at Woodcote House school, Windlesham, and afterwards entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first-class in the mathematical...	11/05/1905	5 August 1855 - 24 December 1927
Robert Dingley	03/11/1748	? September 1710 - ? 9 August 1781
John Diodate	30/11/1724	26 October 1690 - 23 May 1727
Achille Pierre Dionis du Sejour Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour was a French astronomer and mathematician.Dionis du Séjour was born in Paris and was a distant relative of surgeon and anatomist Pierre Dionis. He served as an advisor to parliament before he was appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1765...	01/06/1775	11 January 1734 - 22 August 1794
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	15/05/1930	8 August 1902 - 20 October 1984
Alexander Dirom Alexander Dirom General Alexander Dirom. Born 21 May 1757. Died Annan 6 October 1830. He was appointed Ensign in the 61st Regiment of Foot on the 8th Dec. 1778 and Lt. in the 88th Foot 13th Oct. 1779. He served with the regiment in Barbados and Jamaica as Military Secretary to the GoC and Major of Brigade...	10/07/1794
John Disney John Disney John Disney was an English barrister and archaeologist. Born at Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, he was the eldest son of John Disney, a former Anglican clergyman who became one of the founders of the Episcopal Unitarian Church, and from a long line of English Dissenters going back to...	09/06/1832	29 May 1779 - 6 May 1857
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield	10/02/1876	21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881, politician
Robert William Ditchburn	15/03/1962	14 January 1903 - 8 April 1987
William Dittmar	08/06/1882	? 14 April 1833 - ? 9 March 1892
Edward Divers Edward Divers Edward Divers FRS was a British experimental chemist who rose to prominence despite being visually impaired from young age. Between 1873 and 1899, Divers lived and worked in Japan and significantly contributed to the science and education of that country.-Biography:Divers was born in London and...	04/06/1885	27 November 1837 - 8 April 1912
Frederick Augustus Dixey Frederick Augustus Dixey Frederick Augustus Dixey FRS was president of the Royal Entomological Society of London, and was a distinguished entomologist....	05/05/1910	9 December 1855 - 16 January 1935
Frank Dixey	20/03/1958	7 April 1892 - 1 November 1982
Graham Dixon-Lewis	09/03/1995	1 July 1922 - 5 August 2010 Prof of Engineering, Leeds
Abraham Dixon	09/02/1749	March 1724 - 1782
Alfred Cardew Dixon Alfred Cardew Dixon Alfred Cardew Dixon FRS was an English mathematician.Dixon was born on May 22, 1865 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. He studied at the University of London and graduated with an MA. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1883 and graduated as Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1886...	05/05/1904	22 May 1865 - 4 May 1936
Arthur Lee Dixon Arthur Lee Dixon Arthur Lee Dixon FRS was a British mathematician and holder of the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford. The younger brother of Alfred Cardew Dixon, he was educated at Kingswood School and Worcester College, Oxford, becoming a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College in...	02/05/1912	27 November 1867 - 20
Gordon Henry Dixon	16/03/1978	S.African. Biochemist
Harold Baily Dixon Harold Baily Dixon Harold Baily Dixon, CBE, FCS, FRS was a British chemist. Born in London, England, he was educated at Westminster School and then at Christ Church, Oxford under Vernon Harcourt, graduating in 1875...	04/06/1886	11 August 1852 - 18 September 1930
Henry Horatio Dixon Henry Horatio Dixon Henry Horatio Dixon was a plant biologist and professor at Trinity College Dublin. Along with John Joly, he put forward the cohesion-tension theory of water and mineral movement in plants....	07/05/1908	19 May 1869 - 20 December 1953
Jeremiah Dixon Jeremiah Dixon Jeremiah Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer who is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line....	18/11/1773	1726 - 7 June 1782, astronomer
Malcolm Dixon Malcolm Dixon Malcolm Dixon was a British biochemist.He was born in Cambridge, UK to Allick Page and Caroline Dewe Dixon. He received his PhD in 1925, under Frederick Gowland Hopkins at the University of Cambridge....	19/03/1942	18 April 1899 - 7 December 1985
Raymond Alan Dixon	13/05/1999	Molecular Biologist, John Innes Centre, UK
Richard Dixon	21/03/1811	c 1780 - 13 May 1858 Clergyman
Richard Newland Dixon Richard Dixon (scientist) Richard Newland Dixon FRS is a British chemist noted for his work in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter....	20/03/1986
Walter Ernest Dixon Walter Ernest Dixon Walter Ernest Dixon FRS was a British pharmacologist.He was born in Darlington, County Durham and educated at school in Darlington and at Dulwich, gaining a Science Entrance Scholarship to St. Thomas's Hospital in 1890. He later obtained degrees from both London University and Cambridge...	04/05/1911	2 June 1871 - 16 August 1931
William Dixon	26/02/1730	1703 - 2 April 1783
James Johnston Dobbie James Johnston Dobbie James Johnston Dobbie, was known for the isolation, chemical structure, and physical properties of alkaloids. He isolated...	05/05/1904	4 August 1852 - 19 June 1924
Cecil Clifford Dobell	02/05/1918	23 February 1886 - 23 December 1949 Protozoologist
Christopher Martin Dobson Chris Dobson Christopher Martin "Chris" Dobson, FRS, is a British chemist, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Dobson's research is largely concerned with protein folding and misfolding.Having completed a...	14/03/1996
George Edward Dobson George Edward Dobson George Edward Dobson FRS was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.-Biography:...	07/06/1883	4 September 1848 - 26 November 1895
Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson	12/05/1927	26 February 1889 - 11 March 1976
Matthew Dobson	12/02/1778
Richard Dobson	04/06/1835	c 1773 - 1 September 1847 Surgeon, Greenwich Naval Hospital
John Dobyns	12/03/1724
Graham John Dockray	27/05/2004	Professor of Physiology, Liverpool University
Pierce Dod Pierce Dod Pierce Dod was a British physician and opponent of smallpox inoculation. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1701, received his MA in 1705, MD in 1714 and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1720. He was made a physician to St...	26/02/1730	1683 - 6 August 1754
James Munro Dodd	20/03/1975	26 May 1915 - 15 December 1986
Edward Charles Dodds Charles Dodds Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet FRS was a British biochemist.He was born in Liverpool in 1899, the only child of Ralph Edward and Jane Dodds. The family shortly moved to Leeds, then to Darlington and then to Chesham, Bucks, where he attended Harrow County School...	19/03/1942	13 October 1899 - 16 December 1973
Charles Dodgson	01/04/1762	c 1723 - ? 21 January 1795 Bishop of Elphin (C.of I.)
Eleanor Joy Dodson Eleanor Dodson Eleanor Joy Dodson FRS is a distinguished biologist who specialises in computational modelling of protein crystallography. She holds a chair in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York...	15/05/2003
George Guy Dodson	10/03/1994
James Dodson James Dodson James Dodson FRS was a British mathematician, actuary and innovator in the insurance industry.-Life:Matthew Maty, in his Mémoire sur la vie et sur les écrits de M. A. de Moivre, wrote that Dodson was a pupil of Abraham de Moivre. He worked as an accountant and teacher...	16/01/1755
Peter Charles Doherty	19/03/1987
Joannes Dolaeus	21/01/1692	7 September 1651 - 12 September 1707
John Dolben John Dolben John Dolben was an English priest and Church of England bishop and archbishop.-Life:He was the son of William Dolben , prebendary of Lincoln and bishop-designate of Gloucester. He was educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby and at Christ Church, Oxford. He fought on the Royalist side at... ,	29/03/1665	20 March 1625 - c 15 April 1686
William Richard Shaboe Doll Richard Doll Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...	17/03/1966	28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005
George Dollond George Dollond George Dollond was an English optician who constructed optical precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy and also in navigation...	23/12/1819	25 January 1774 - 13 May 1852
John Dollond John Dollond John Dollond was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets.-Biography:...	28/05/1761	10 June 1706 - 30 November 1761
David Henry Dolphin David Dolphin David H. Dolphin, OC, FRS, FRSC is a Canadian biochemist.He is an internationally recognized expert in porphyrin chemistry and biochemistry...	09/05/2002
Cyril Domb Cyril Domb Cyril Domb is a physicist best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He is also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on Science and Judaism...	17/03/1977
Georg Peter Domcke	07/11/1734	1734
Athene Margaret Donald	13/05/1999
Simon Kirwan Donaldson	20/03/1986
Vitaliano Donati Vitaliano Donati Vitaliano Donati , born in Padua in Italy, was an Italian doctor, archeologist, and botanist. He took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1739....	19/05/1757	1717–1762
Leonard Doncaster	06/05/1915	31 December 1877 - 28 May 1920
Bryan Donkin Bryan Donkin Bryan Donkin was an English engineer and industrialist. Of his six sons, John, Bryan, and Thomas also became engineers.-Early life:Born in Sandoe, Northumberland, his father was a surveyor and land agent...	18/01/1838	22 March 1768 - 27 February 1855
Rufane Shaw Donkin Rufane Shaw Donkin Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin GCH KCB , was a British army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament.-Family:Rufane Donkin came of a military family and was the eldest child...	23/02/1826	? September 1772 - 1 May 1841
William Fishburn Donkin William Fishburn Donkin William Fishburn Donkin was an astronomer and mathematician, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.-Private life:...	13/01/1842	16 February 1814 - 15 November 1869
Frederick George Donnan	04/05/1911	6 September 1870 - 16 December 1956
Peter James Donnelly Peter Donnelly Peter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory...	18/05/2006
George Thomas Doo George Thomas Doo George Thomas Doo George Thomas Doo George Thomas Doo (January 6, 1800, Surrey - November 13, 1886, Sutton, London was an English engraver.His teacher was Charles Heath. In 1824 he published his first plate, after a portrait of the Duke of York by Thomas Lawrence. In 1925 he went to Paris and...	05/06/1851	6 January 1800 - 13 November 1886
Arthur Thomas Doodson Arthur Thomas Doodson -Biography:He was born at Boothstown, Salford, the son of cotton-mill manager Thomas Doodson. He was educated at Rochdale secondary school and then in 1908 entered Liverpool University, graduating in both chemistry and mathematics . He was profoundly deaf and found it difficult to get a job but...	11/05/1933	31 March 1890 - 10 January 1968
Samuel Doody Samuel Doody -Life:The eldest of the second family of his father, John Doody, an apothecary in Staffordshire who later moved to London where he had a shop in The Strand, he was born in Staffordshire 28 May 1656...	27/11/1695	28 May 1656 - November 1706
Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and wrote about sundials....	06/12/1733	1671 - 1 December 1750
Stanley Fabes Dorey	18/03/1948	28 November 1891 - 30 August 1972
Isaac Dorislaus	30/11/1681
Peter John Dornan	09/05/2003
Alexander Edgar Douglas	19/03/1970	12 April 1916 - 26 July 1981
Alexander Hamilton Douglas, 10th Duke of Hamilton Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, 7th Duke of Brandon KG PC FRS FSA was a Scottish politician and art collector....	20/05/1802	5 October 1767 - 18 August 1852
Andrew Douglas	07/03/1793	1736 - 10 June 1806
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover, PC was a Scottish nobleman.The son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1st Duke of Dover, and Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, was a Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland.He took up the cause...	08/11/1722	24 November 1698 - 22 October 1778
Charles Douglas Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet Rear Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet of Carr was a descendant of the Earls of Morton and a distinguished British naval officer...	17/05/1770
Claude Gordon Douglas	11/05/1922	27 February 1882 - 23 March 1963
Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk FRS was a Scottish peer.-Biography:The son of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk and Joan Wedderburn-Colville, he was born in London....	13/01/1831	22 April 1809 - 11 April 1885
Frederic Sylvester North Douglas	01/05/1817	4 February 1791 - 21 October 1819
George Douglas	28/01/1830
George Douglas	15/03/1733
George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, KT was the son of Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1785 and served as their vice-president from 1795-1819...	24/02/1785	3 April 1761 - 17 July 1827
George Douglas	14/12/1692	c 1657 – 31 July 1693
Howard Douglas Howard Douglas General Sir Howard Douglas, 3rd Baronet, GCB, GCMG, FRS was a British military officer born in Gosport, England, the younger son of Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, and a descendant of the Earls of Morton...	25/01/1816	23 January 1776 - 9 November 1861
James Douglas James Douglas (physician) James Douglas was a Scottish physician and anatomist, and Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline.One of the seven sons of William Douglas and his wife, Joan, daughter of James Mason of Park, Blantyre, he was born in West Calder, West Lothian, in 1675...	20/11/1706	21 March 1675 - 2 April 1742
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton KT FRS was a Scottish astronomer and representative peer who was President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1737 until his death...	19/04/1733	1702 - 12 October 1768 PRS 1764-1768
John Douglas	25/06/1778	14 July 1721 - 18 May 1807 Bishop of Salisbury
John Douglas	30/11/1720
Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton was the son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.In February 1754 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...	21/02/1754	1732 - 25 September 1774
Stewart Ranken Douglas	11/05/1922	23 February 1871 - 20 January 1936
Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie PC, KC, FRS, FSA was a British lawyer, politician and diarist. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1793 and 1794.-Background, education and legal career:...	05/03/1795	24 May 1743 - 2 May 1823
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk was a Scottish peer. He was born at Saint Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He was noteworthy as a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony.- Early background :Douglas was the seventh son of Dunbar...	07/07/1808	20 June 1771 - 8 April 1820
Walter Douglas Walter Douglas (governor) Colonel Walter Douglas was one of seven sons of William Douglas of Baads and his wife, Joan, daughter of James Mason of Park, Blantyre. One of his brothers was the surgeon John Douglas , another James, a physician and anatomist...	30/11/1711	1670 - 1739 Governor, Leeward Islands
William Douglas	18/12/1800	? 1768 - ? 19 March 1819 Clergyman
William Robert Keith Douglas William Robert Keith Douglas Lord William Robert Keith Douglas was a British politician and landowner. He was the fourth son of Sir James Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead and younger brother of both Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry and John Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensberry...	09/03/1826	1783 - 5 December 1859
William Wilton Douglas	17/03/1983	15 August 1922 - 2 July 1998
James Nicholas Douglass James Nicholas Douglass Sir James Nicholas Douglass, FRS, , was an English civil engineer, a prolific lighthouse builder and designer, most famous for the design and construction of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse, for which he was knighted....	09/06/1887	16 October 1826 - 19 June 1898
John Derek Dowell	20/03/1986
Ann Patricia Dowling	15/05/2003
Patrick Joseph Dowling	14/03/1996
John Downes	05/12/1667	c 1627 - c 1694
Allan Watt Downie Allan Watt Downie Allan Watt Downie was a Scottish microbiologist involved in the eradication of smallpox.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March,1955 Downie bodies are named for him.-External links:...	17/03/1955	5 September 1901 - 26 January 1988
Arthur Matthew Weld Downing Arthur Matthew Weld Downing Arthur Matthew Weld Downing was a British astronomer.He was born in Carlow, Ireland.He became an assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1873. He became superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office from 1891 to 1910. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1896 He...	04/06/1896	13 April 1850 - 8 December 1917
Diarmuid Downs Diarmuid Downs Sir Diarmuid Downs CBE, KSG,, FRS is a British automotive engineer.He was born in 1922 in London where his father ran a small engineering business manufacturing equipment for the oil industry. Downs was educated at Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar School and the Regent Street Polytechnic, London...	21/03/1985
Julian Downward	26/05/2005
Duncan Dowson	19/03/1987
Francis Drake Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...	10/06/1736	January 1696 - 16 March 1771
James Drake	01/12/1701	1667 - 2 March 1707 Physician
Henri Francois Le Dran Henri François Le Dran Henri François Le Dran was a French surgeon. He gave lectures with the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris, and practiced surgery at Hôpital de la Charité. He is remembered for his work with surgeon Jean-Louis Petit...	10/01/1745	13 October 1685 - 17 October 1770
Richard Drew	28/02/1839	1787 - 14 July 1843 Trinity House
Christopher William de Dreyer	05/06/1783
Georges Dreyer Georges Dreyer Georges Dreyer ForMemRS was a Danish pathologist.He was born in Shanghai, where his father was stationed as an officer with the Royal Danish Navy. In 1900 he earned his medical degree at the University of Copenhagen, and subsequently worked as a bacteriologist, which included time spent at Finsen...	12/05/1921	4 July 1873 - 17 August 1934
George William Drory	04/02/1836	10 January 1803 - 19 July 1879
George Claridge Druce George Claridge Druce George Claridge Druce, MA, LLD, JP, FRS, FLS was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford.G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire.He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion....	12/05/1927	23 May 1850 - 29 February 1932
Henry Drummond	19/12/1839	5 December 1786 - 20 February 1860
Jack Cecil Drummond	16/03/1944	12 January 1891 - 5 August 1952
William Drummond William Drummond of Logiealmond Sir William Drummond of Logiealmond was a Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher. His book Academical Questions is arguably important in the development of the ideas of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.-Career:In 1795 he was MP for St. Mawes, and in the...	04/04/1799	c 1770 - 29 March 1828
Henry Joseph Thomas Drury Henry Drury Henry Joseph Thomas "Harry" Drury was an English educator, classical scholar, and friend of Lord Byron.Henry Drury was born 27 April 1778, at Harrow, London, the son of Joseph Drury, headmaster of Harrow School....	26/02/1818	27 April 1778 - 5 March 1841 Schoolteacher, Harrow
Alan Nigel Drury	06/05/1937	3 November 1889 - 2 August 1980
Thomas Drury	16/11/1758	1712 - 19 January 1759 Baronet, MP
Henry Dry	30/04/1730	fl 1697 - 1740
John Dryden John Dryden John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...	20/05/1663	9 August 1631 - 1 May 1700 Original
Matthew Duane Matthew Duane Matthew Duane was an English Roman Catholic conveyancer and art patron.Of obscure family origins, by the 1730s Duane had established himself as a 'chamber counsel' and conveyancer in Newcastle and London. He married Dorothy Dawson in 1742. He became a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1748. Amongst his...	09/06/1763	1707–1785
Anthony Le Duc	21/03/1723	fl 1723
Andrew Coltee Ducarel Andrew Ducarel Andrew Coltee Ducarel , was an English antiquary. He was also member of the College of Civilians who practiced civil law...	04/02/1762	1713 - 29 May 1785
Sir George Duckett	08/12/1808	17 July 1777 - 15 June 1856
Charles Dineau Duclos	12/01/1764	1705–1772
William Duddell William Duddell William Du Bois Duddell was a British electro-physicist and electrical engineer. He was privately educated in the UK and France and rose quickly through the prestigious City & Guilds Schools via scholarships...	02/05/1907	1 July 1872 - 4 November 1917
Harold Ward Dudley	15/05/1930	30 October 1887 - 3 October 1935
Paul Dudley	02/11/1721	3 September 1675 - 25 January 1751
Matthew Dudley Matthew Dudley Sir Matthew Dudley, 2nd Baronet was an English politician.Dudley was the MP for Huntingdonshire....	30/11/1703
Sheldon Francis Dudley	20/03/1941	16 August 1884 - 6 May 1956
James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife was a Scottish Earl, Baron and Minister of Parliament.-Heritage:James Duff was second son of William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, and Jean Grant , his fathers second wife. His father, son of William Duff of Dipple, co. Banff, was M.P...	29/03/1787	29 September 1729 - 24 January 1809
Michael James Duff	15/05/2009
William Dugood	02/05/1728	fl 1728 - 1757
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau	23/01/1735	1700 - 23 August 1782
William Stewart Duke-Elder	24/03/1960	22 April 1898 - 27 March 1978
Rinaldo Duliolo	23/10/1712
Daniel Dumaresq Daniel Dumaresq Daniel Dumaresq FRS was an educational consultant to Russian and Polish monarchsDuraresq came from Trinity, Jersey in the Channel Islands. His father was Jurat Elie Dumaresq , Seigneur of Augrès. He attended Abingdon School and in 1730 entered Pembroke College and was a Fellow of Exeter College,...	05/02/1761	? June 1712 - 28 October 1805
Vital de Dumas	28/06/1665	fl 1665 - 1675
Thomas Dummer Thomas Dummer Thomas Dummer was an English Member of Parliament for Newport , Yarmouth , Downton in Wiltshire , Wendover in Buckinghamshire and Lymington in Hampshire ....	27/05/1773	c 1740 - 3 June 1781
Thomas Lee Dummer Thomas Lee Dummer Thomas Lee Dummer was an English Member of Parliament for Southampton and Newport .-Family:...	09/03/1732	c 1712 - 6 October 1765
Alexander Duncan	19/04/1798	1758–1832
James Matthews Duncan	07/06/1883	April 1826 - 1 September 1890
John Duncan	16/05/2008	John Duncan Prof of Physiology MRC
Peter Martin Duncan Peter Martin Duncan Peter Martin Duncan was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Duncan was born in Twickenham, and was educated partly at the local grammar school and partly in Switzerland...	04/06/1868	20 April 1821 - 28 May 1891
William Duncan	14/11/1771	c 1715 - 1 October 1774
William Jolly Duncan	20/03/1947	26 April 1894 - 9 December 1960
Peter Duncumb	17/03/1977
Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville	15/05/1817	14 March 1771 - 10 June 1851
Thomas Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas FRS , known as Sir Thomas Dundas, 2nd Baronet, from 1781 to 1794, was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Great Britain, now remembered for commissioning the Charlotte Dundas, the world's "first practical steamboat".-Biography:Thomas was the only son of Sir Lawrence...	05/05/1768	1741 - 14 June 1820
Kingsley Charles Dunham Kingsley Charles Dunham Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham FRS was one of the leading British geologists and mineralogists of the 20th century. He was a Professor of Geology at the University of Durham from 1950-71. He was later Professor Emeritus from 1967-2001...	17/03/1955	2 January 1910 - 5 April 2001
Jack David Dunitz Jack David Dunitz Jack David Dunitz is a British chemist and one of the greatest chemical crystallographers.He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Zürich, 1957–90...	21/03/1974
Edwin Dunkin Edwin Dunkin Edwin Dunkin FRS, , astronomer, president of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall-Birth and family:...	01/06/1876	19 August 1821 - 26 November 1898
Wyndham Rowland Dunstan	01/06/1893	24 May 1861 - 20 April 1949
Baldwin Francis Duppa	06/06/1867	18
August Dupre	03/06/1875	6 September 1835 - 15 July 1907
Josias Dupre	03/06/1779	1721 - 1 October 1780
David Durand David Durand David Durand was an Huguenot French and English minister and historian. He was born in Languedoc and fled France to the Netherlands before heading to Spain with a group of refugees, being captured at the Battle of Almanza in 1707 and being sent to France and then escaping to the Netherlands again...	16/01/1729	1680 - 16 January 1763
Richard Michael Durbin	27/05/2004
Francis Duroure	10/11/1773	c 1715 - 24 February 1808
John Duroure	25/05/1779	c 1751 - 28 February 1801
Louis Dutens Louis Dutens Louis Dutens was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents, who lived most of his life in Britain or in British service on the continent....	27/04/1775	15 January 1730 - 23 May 1812
Peter Leslie Dutton	15/03/1990
Francis Philip Duval	16/04/1741
Philip Duval	12/05/1774	1732 - 14 March 1808
Fortunatus William Lilley Dwarris	22/04/1847	23 October 1786 - 20 May 1860
Raymond Allen Dwek Raymond Dwek Professor Raymond Allen Dwek BSc DPhil DSc FRS is a scientist at the University of Oxford and founded its spin-off biotechnology company, Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. ....	14/05/1998
Edmund Dwyer	09/04/1812	c 1774 - 24 July 1822 Clergyman
William David Dye	10/05/1928	30 December 1887 - 1932
Samuel Dyer	06/03/1760	1725 - 15 September 1772
Freeman John Dyson	20/03/1952
James Dyson James Dyson (physicist) James Dyson FRS was a British physicist.He worked in the Research Laboratory of Applied Electrical Industries, and the Optics Division of the National Physical Laboratory.-External links:...	21/03/1968	10 December 1914 - 22 January 1990
Frank Watson Dyson Frank Watson Dyson Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in testing Einstein's theory of general relativity.- Biography :Dyson was born in Measham, near...	06/06/1901	8 January 1868 - 25 May 1939

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Name	Election Date
Colin Eaborn	19/03/1970	15 March 1923 – 22 February 2004
John Eames John Eames -Life:He was a native of London. He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 10 March 1696–7, and was subsequently trained for the dissenting ministry. He preached only once and seems never to have been ordained....	25/06/1724
Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot	04/06/1863	29 May 1812 - 30 September 1877
John Eardley-Wilmot	18/11/1779	1750 - 23 June 1815 Barrister
John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot	07/05/1812	22 February 1783 - 3 February 1847
Sampson Eardley, Baron Eardley Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley , known as Sampson Gideon until 1789, was the son of another Sampson Gideon , a Jewish banker in the City of London who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s.He served as Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1770 to 1780, Midhurst from 1780...	05/11/1789	? 1745 - 25 December 1824
Henry Earle Henry Earle Henry Earle , was an English surgeon.Earle was the third son of Sir James Earle, was born 28 June 1789, in Hanover Square, London. His mother was daughter of Percival Pott, the great surgeon. He was apprenticed to his father at the age of sixteen, became a member of the College of Surgeons in 1808,...	18/04/1822	28 June 1789 - 18 January 1838
James Earle James Earle Sir James Earle was a celebrated British surgeon, renowned for his skill in lithotomy.Earle was born in London. After studying medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became the institution's assistant surgeon in 1770. Due to the temporary incapacity of one of the hospital's surgeons, Earle...	06/03/1794	1755–1817
William Benson Earle William Benson Earle William Benson Earle , was an English philanthropist.Earle was the eldest son of Harry Benson Earle. He was born at Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, in 1740, but his life was passed at Salisbury, with the history and charities of which city his name is inseparably associated...	04/03/1773	1740 - 2 March 1796
Edward Hyde East	11/04/1799	9 September 1764 - 8 January 1847
William East	09/03/1721	fl 1721 - 1734 Surgeon
Charles Lock Eastlake Charles Lock Eastlake Sir Charles Lock Eastlake RA was an English painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the early 19th century.-Early life:...	25/01/1838	17 November 1793 - 24 December 1865
Edward Backhouse Eastwick Edward Backhouse Eastwick Edward Backhouse Eastwick CB was a British orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament....	05/06/1851	13 March 1814 - 16 July 1883
Eric Eastwood	21/03/1968	12 March 1910 - 6 October 1981 electronics engineer, Marconi
Stephen Eaton	27/04/1797
Laurence Eaves	15/05/1997
John Carew Eccles John Carew Eccles John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin....	20/03/1941	27 January 1903 - 2 May 1997
William Henry Eccles	12/05/1921	23 August 1875 - 29 April 1966
George Eckersall	23/04/1761
Thomas Lydwell Eckersley	17/03/1938	27 December 1886 - 15
Anton Georg Eckhardt	02/06/1774	1740–1810
Arthur Stanley Eddington Arthur Stanley Eddington Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science...	07/05/1914	28 December 1882 - 22 November 1944
Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley Morton Frederick Eden, 1st Baron Henley GCB, PC, FRS was a British diplomat.Eden was a younger son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1776–79, he was Minister to Bavaria, then to Copenhagen 1779–82, Dresden 1783–91, Berlin...	06/02/1800	8 July 1752 - 6 December 1830
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland	23/03/1786	3 April 1744 - 28 May 1814
George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Admiral George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, PC was a British peer, naval officer and politician....	10/06/1784	4 March 1721 - 4 February 1795
Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe PC , styled Viscount Valletort between 1789 and 1795, was a British politician and writer on music.-Background:...	12/05/1808	13 September 1764 - 26 September 1839
Richard Edgcumbe Richard Edgcumbe (politician) Sir Richard Edgcumbe was an English politician.He was the son of Piers Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe and Cotehele, Calstock, Cornwall, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John Glanville of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire...	30/11/1676	? February 1640 - ? April 1688
John Augustine Edgell	18/03/1943	20 December 1880 - 14 November 1962
Lovell Edgeworth	14/11/1822	30 June 1796 - December 1841
Richard Lovell Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor.-Biography:Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, grandson of Sir Salathiel Lovell through his daughter, Jane Lovell....	05/07/1781	31 May 1744 - 13 June 1817
Pehr Victor Edman	21/03/1974	14 April 1916 - 19 March 1977
John Marmion Edmond John M. Edmond John Marmion Edmond FRS was a professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who did pioneering work on oceanic particulate matter, the oceanic carbon dioxide cycle, trace elements, and radioisotopes...	20/03/1986	27 April 1943 – 10 April 2001
Neil Benjamin Edmonstone Neil Benjamin Edmonstone Neil Benjamin Edmonstone , was an Indian civilian.Edmonstone, born on 6 December 1765, was fifth son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, M.P. for Dumbartonshire 1761–80 and 1790–6, and the Ayr Burghs 1780–90, who, made a baronet in 1774, died in 1807. He obtained a writership in the East...	12/01/1826	6 December 1765 - 4 May 1841
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany	27/11/1760	14 March 1739 - 17 September 1767 Royal
Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...	12/02/1863	9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910 Royal
Bryan Edwards Bryan Edwards Bryan Edwards, FRS was an English politician and historian born in Westbury, Wiltshire. Edwards supported the slave trade, and was described by abolitionist William Wilberforce as a powerful opponent.-Life:...	22/05/1794	21 May 1743 - ? 16 July 1800
Charles Alfred Edwards	15/05/1930	23 March 1882 - 29 March 1960
David Olaf Edwards	17/03/1988
Dianne Edwards Dianne Edwards Dianne Edwards CBE ScD FRSE FLSW FRS is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.-Career:...	14/03/1996
Frederick Wallace Edwards Frederick Wallace Edwards Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS , was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera....	16/03/1939	28 November 1888 - 15 November 1940
George Edwards	10/11/1757	3 April 1694 - 23 July 1773
George Robert Edwards George Edwards (aviation) Sir George Robert Freeman Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS, DL , was a British aircraft designer and industrialist.Edwards was born in Highams Park, England...	21/03/1968	9 July 1908 – 2 March 2003
James Edwards	03/02/1732	c 1689 - 1744
John Hilton Edwards	15/03/1979
Peter Philip Edwards	14/03/1996
Robert Geoffrey Edwards	15/03/1984
Samuel Frederick Edwards	17/03/1966
William Frederick Edwards	26/02/1829	6 April 1776 - 23 July 1842 Physiologist, to France
John Edye	05/02/1835	7 August 1789 - 1 March 1873
Joseph Edye	21/01/1841	1791 - 12 November 1866
Justus van Effen Justus van Effen Justus van Effen was a Dutch author, who wrote chiefly in French but also made crucial contributions to Dutch literature. A journalist, he imitated The Spectator with the publication of Dutch language Hollandsche Spectator...	30/11/1715	? 11 February 1684 - 1735
George Petros Efstathiou	10/03/1994
Thomas Egan	04/04/1811
Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater , known as Francis Egerton until 1823, was a noted British eccentric, and supporter of natural theology....	08/11/1781	11 November 1756 - 11 November 1829
George Granville Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere George Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere George Granville Francis Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere was a British peer and Conservative politician, known as Viscount Brackley from 1846–57....	06/12/1860	15 June 1823 - 19 September 1862
John William Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater John William Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater FRS , known as John Egerton until 1803, was a British soldier and Tory politician....	28/01/1808	14 April 1753 - 21 October 1823
Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton	06/05/1926	11 October 1886 - 7 September 1959
Geoffrey Eglinton Geoffrey Eglinton Geoffrey Eglinton, FRS is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at Bristol University....	18/03/1976
Georg Dionysius Ehret Georg Dionysius Ehret Georg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...	19/05/1757	? 9 September 1710 - 9 September 1770
Ronald David Ekers	26/05/2005
Roger Philip Ekins	10/05/2001
John Hugh David Eland	18/05/2006
Henry Elderfield Henry Elderfield Professor Henry "Harry" Elderfield, FRS, , is Professor of Ocean Geochemistry and Palaeoclimate Research at the Godwin Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University...	10/05/2001
Daniel Douglas Eley	19/03/1964
William Elford	29/04/1790	1 August 1749 - 30 November 1837
William Joseph Elford	16/03/1950	4 January 1900 - 14 February 1952
Francis Elgar	04/06/1896	24 April 1845 - ? 16 January 1909
John Eliot	13/06/1895	25 May 1839 - 18 March 1908 Meteorologist, India
Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield	02/03/1809	1750 - 26 January 1818
William Francis Eliott	02/03/1815	1792 - 3 September 1864
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	30/01/1947	Royal
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...	08/11/1956	4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 Royal
Robert Lewis John Ellery	12/06/1873	14 July 1827 - 14 January 1908
John Ellicott	26/10/1738	c 1706 - 1772
Charles Porter Ellington	14/05/1998
Charles Morgan Elliot	05/06/1851	27 April 1815 - 4 August 1852
Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto PC , known as Sir Gilbert Elliott between 1777 and 1797 and as The Lord Minto between 1797 and 1813, was a Scottish politician diplomat....	23/12/1802	23 April 1751 - 21 June 1814
Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Earl of Minto Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto GCB, PC , styled as Viscount Melgund between 1813 and 1814, was a British diplomat and Whig politician.-Background and education:...	03/03/1836	16 November 1782 - 31 July 1859
Harry Elliot	15/03/1973	28 June 1920 - 5 July 2009
John Elliot	16/05/1811	c 1764 - ? 29 March 1829 Brewer
John Elliot	18/01/1776
George Elliot George Elliot (1784–1863) Admiral Sir George Elliot, KCB , was a Royal Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the First Opium War....	05/06/1834	1 August 1784 - 24 June 1863
Walter Elliot Walter Elliot (ICS) Sir Walter Elliot , Born in Edinburgh, studied at the East India College in Haileybury and joined the Indian Civil Service at Madras in 1821 and worked on till 1860....	06/06/1878	16 January 1803 - 1 March 1887 Indian Civil Service
John Elliotson John Elliotson John Elliotson was an English physician, born in Southwark, London.He studied medicine first at the University of Edinburgh , where he was influenced by Thomas Brown, M.D...	19/03/1829	29 October 1791 - 29 July 1868
Charles Elliott	26/11/1835	10 December 1776 - 4 May 1856 Indian Civil Service
Charles Boileau Elliott	05/04/1832	17 February 1803 - 1 July 1875
Charles Thomas Elliott	17/03/1988
Edwin Bailey Elliott Edwin Bailey Elliott Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote the book on invariant theory.-Bibliography:...	04/06/1891	1 June 1851 - 21 July 1937
James Philip Elliott	20/03/1980
Michael Elliott Michael Elliott Michael Elliott, OBE was an English theatre and television director.-Early life:He was born in London the son of a clergyman, Canon Elliott and was educated at Radley College and Keble College, Oxford...	15/03/1979	30 September 1924 - Agriculture chemist, Rothamsted
Roger James Elliott Roger James Elliott Sir Roger James Elliott is a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor and optical properties of condensed matter....	18/03/1976	Professor of Physics, Oxford University
Thomas Renton Elliott Thomas Renton Elliott Thomas Renton Elliott FRS was a British physician and physiologist.Elliott was born in Willington, County Durham, as the eldest son to retailer Archibald William Elliott and his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Renton, of Otley, Yorkshire...	01/05/1913	11 October 1877 - 4 March 1961 physician & physiologist, University College
Alexander John Ellis Alexander John Ellis Alexander John Ellis FRS was an English mathematician and philologist. He changed his name from his father's name Sharpe to his mother's maiden name Ellis in 1825, based on a condition for receiving significant financial support from a relative on his mother's side.- Biography :He was born...	02/06/1864	14 June 1814 - 28 October 1890
Andrew Ellis	20/05/1663
Charles Drummond Ellis Charles Drummond Ellis Sir Charles Drummond Ellis was a physicist and scientific administrator. His work on the magnetic spectrum of the beta-rays helped to develop a better understanding of nuclear structure....	02/05/1929	11 August 1895 - 10 January 1980
George Ellis	18/05/1797	1753 - 10 April 1815 MP
George Francis Rayner Ellis	17/05/2007
Henry Ellis Henry Ellis (librarian) Sir Henry Ellis was an English librarian.He was born in London and educated at the Mercers' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he acted as an assistant at the Bodleian Library...	30/05/1811	29 November 1777 - 15 January 1869
Henry Ellis	11/02/1819	1777 - 28 September 1855
Henry Ellis Henry Ellis (governor) Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, and a colonial governor of Georgia.Ellis was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. He was educated in law at the Temple Church in London. In May 1746, he went out as agent of a company for the discovery of the Northwest Passage...	08/02/1750	1721 - 21 January 1806
Jeff Ellis	15/05/2009
John Ellis John Ellis (naturalist) John Ellis FRS was a British linen merchant and naturalist.Ellis specialised in the study of corals. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1754 and in the following year published An essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1767...	14/02/1754	c 1710 - 15 October 1776
John Ellis	19/05/1774	fl 1774
John Ellis	12/03/1801
Jonathan Richard Ellis	21/03/1985
Reginald John Ellis R. John Ellis Reginald John Ellis, FRS, is a British scientist at The University of Warwick. Ellis was born on 12th February, 1935, and educated at Highbury Grammar School, London. He studied at King's College, London and obtained a BSc degree in 1956 and PhD in 1960, for thesis research on the enzymology of...	17/03/1983
Richard Salisbury Ellis Richard Ellis (astronomer) Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology ....	09/03/1995	Astronomer
Richard Keith Ellis Richard Keith Ellis Richard Keith Ellis is a British theoretical physicist, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a leading authority on perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics....	15/05/2009
Thomas Flower Ellis Thomas Flower Ellis Thomas Flower Ellis was an English law reporter.Ellis was the son of Thomas Flower Ellis. Born in Walthamstow, he was educated in Hackney and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1818, and was elected a fellow in 1819. He was a brilliant scholar, though only a senior optime in the...	15/04/1847	1796 - 5 April 1861 Law reporter
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip PC FRS was a British statesman. He held a number of political offices, including briefly serving as Secretary for the Colonies in 1782 during the American War of Independence.-Background:...	20/06/1745	15 December 1713 - 2 February 1802
William Ellis	01/06/1893	21 February 1828 - ? 11 December 1916 Meteorologist and Astronomer
Anthony Ellys Anthony Ellys Anthony Ellys was an English churchman who became bishop of St David's in 1752.-Life:Born at Yarmouth in Norfolk, he was baptised on 8 June 1690. His father and grandfather were merchants there, and mayors of the borough. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1712,...	12/03/1724	? June 1690 - 16 January 1761
Peter Elmsley Peter Elmsley Peter Elmsley was an English classical scholar.He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, and having inherited a fortune from his uncle, a well-known bookseller, devoted himself to the study of classical authors and manuscripts...	10/02/1814	1773 - 8 March 1825
George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith	24/06/1790	7 January 1746 - 10 March 1823
Howard Elphinstone Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet was a British Whig politicianHe was elected as Member of Parliament for Hastings at the 1835 general election, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1832. He did not stand for re-election in Hastings at the 1837 general election, but stood instead in...	09/06/1832	9 June 1804 - 16 March 1893
Joseph Else	14/05/1778
Charles Sutherland Elton Charles Sutherland Elton Charles Sutherland Elton FRS was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. His name is associated with the establishment of modern population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms.-Personal life:...	19/03/1953	29 March 1900 - 1 May 1991
Harry Eltringham Harry Eltringham Harry Eltringham FRS was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.He had ben awarded a Master of Science and a Doctor of Science ....	15/05/1930	18 May 1873 - 26 November 1941
Henry John Elwes Henry John Elwes Henry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, naturalist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalayas and Korea. He was the first person to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural...	03/06/1897	16 May 1846 - 26 November 1922
Harry Julius Emeléus Harry Julius Emeléus Harry Julius Emeléus CBE, FRS was a leading British inorganic chemist.-Early life:Emeléus was born in Poplar, London on 22 June 1903, the son of Karl Henry Emeléus , a pharmacist who was born in Vaasä, Finland. The family moved to the Old Pharmacy in Battle, Sussex shortly after Emeléus was born...	21/03/1946	22 June 1903 - 2 December 1993
Thomas Emlyn	10/11/1768
Maurice Emmet	23/03/1698	c 1676 - c 1720
Johann Franz Encke Johann Franz Encke Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn.-Biography:Encke was born in Hamburg, where his father was a...	09/06/1825	23 September 1791 - 26 August 1865
Charles Enderby Charles Enderby Charles Enderby was one of three sons of Samuel Enderby Junior . He was the grandson of Samuel Enderby , who founded the Samuel Enderby & Sons company in 1775. Samuel Enderby & Sons was one of the most prominent English sealing and whaling firms, active in both the Arctic and Southern Oceans...	14/01/1841	21 November 1797 - 31 August 1876
John Edwin Enderby	21/03/1985	Professor of Physics, Bristol University
Philip Christopher England	13/05/1999
Frank Leonard Engledow	21/03/1946	20 August 1890 - 3 July 1985
Henry Charles Englefield Henry Charles Englefield Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Baronet was an English antiquary and scientist.-Life:He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Englefield, sixth baronet, by his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Charles Bucke, Bart...	12/02/1778	1752 - 21 March 1822
George Ent George Ent George Ent was an English scientist in the seventeenth century who focused on the study of anatomy. He was a member of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians...	22/04/1663	6 November 1604 - 13 October 1689 Original
George Ent	08/11/1677	c 1644 - August 1679 Barrister
Charles L'Epinasse	09/07/1767	fl 1767
David Bernard Alper Epstein David Epstein (mathematician) David Bernard Alper Epstein FRS is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory, amongst other fields. He co-founded David Bernard Alper Epstein FRS (b. 1937) is a mathematician known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, 3-manifolds, and group theory,...	27/05/2004
Michael Anthony Epstein	15/03/1979	pathologist, virologist, Vice-President of the Royal Society (1986–1991)
Arthur Erdelyi Arthur Erdélyi Arthur Erdélyi FRS, FRSE was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions - especially orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions.-Biography:...	20/03/1975	2 October 1908 - 12 December 1977
John Eric Erichsen John Eric Erichsen Sir John Eric Erichsen, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon, born in Copenhagen, was the son of Eric Erichsen, a member of a well-known Danish banking family....	01/06/1876	19 July 1818 - 23 September 1896
William Erle William Erle Sir William Erle PC QC FRS was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician.-Early career:Born at Fifehead Magdalen, Dorset, William was the son of the Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset and Margaret née Bowles, a relative of the poet William Lisle Bowles. His younger brother Peter Erle...	22/11/1860	1 October 1793 - 28 January 1880
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover Ernest Augustus I of Hanover Ernest Augustus I was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death. He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III, who reigned in both the United Kingdom and Hanover...	24/04/1828	5 June 1771 - 18 November 1851 Royal
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg	14/06/1787	30 January 1745 - 20 April 1804
Jeffery Errington	15/05/2003
David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan	27/06/1765	1 June 1742 - 19 April 1829
Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan	10/01/1734	1710 - 1 December 1767
Robert Erskine Robert Erskine Colonel Robert Erskine was a Scottish inventor and later an American officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War....	31/01/1771	7 September 1735 - 2 October 1780
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine KT PC KC was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.-Background and childhood:...	22/02/1787	10 January 1750 - 17 November 1823
William Erskine	22/04/1663
John Douglas Eshelby	21/03/1974	21 December 1916 - 10 December 1981
Louis Essen Louis Essen Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light...	24/03/1960	6 September 1908 - 24 August 1997
William Esson William Esson William Esson was a British mathematician. He attended St John's College, Oxford, and then became a fellow of Merton College . In 1892, he became the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. He worked on problems in chemistry with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt.-References:...	03/06/1869	? 17 May 1838 - 25 August 1916
Francesco Maria d'Este, Prince of Modena	06/11/1735	2 July 1698 – 22 February 1780
Robert Etheridge Robert Etheridge Robert Etheridge was an English geologist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Etheridge was born at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire. After an ordinary school education in his native town, he obtained employment in a business house in Bristol...	08/06/1871	3 December 1819 - 18 December 1903
Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...	22/01/1747	15 April 1707 - 18 September 1783
Maurice Eustace Maurice Eustace Maurice Eustace was an Irish soldier, secretly ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and hanged as a traitor.-Life:He was the eldest son of Sir John Eustace, Castlemartin, County Kildare. He was sent to be educated at the Jesuit college at Bruges in Flanders. There, after the completion of his secular...	09/01/1668
Gerard Ian Evan	27/05/2004
Anthony Glyn Evans	10/05/2001
Arthur John Evans	06/06/1901	8 July 1851 - 11 July 1941
Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans	07/05/1925	9 July 1884 - 29 August 1968
David Gwynne Evans	24/03/1960	6 September 1909 - 13 June 1984
Dennis Frederick Evans	19/03/1981	27 March 1928 - 6 November 1990
Frederick John Owen Evans Frederick John Owen Evans Sir Frederick John Owen Evans , was a hydrographer.Ecans, son of John Evans, master R.N., was born on 9 March 1815. He entered the navy as a second-class volunteer in 1828...	05/06/1862	? 9 March 1815 - 20 December 1885
John Evans John Evans (archaeologist) Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...	02/06/1864	17 November 1823 - 31 May 1908
John William Evans John William Evans (geologist) John William Evans was a British geologist. Evans was president of the Geological Society of London 1924-6. He received its Murchison Medal in 1922....	15/05/1919	27 July 1857 - 16 November 1930
Lewis Evans	29/05/1823	1755 - 19 November 1827 Astronomer
Lloyd Thomas Evans	18/03/1976
Martin John Evans Martin Evans Sir Martin John Evans FRS is a British scientist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981...	11/03/1993
Meredith Gwynne Evans	20/03/1947	2 December 1904 - 25 December 1952
Philip Richard Evans	26/05/2005
Robert Evans	26/05/2005	physicist
Trevor Evans	17/03/1988	26 April 1927 - 10 October 2010 Prof of Physics, Reading
Ulick Richardson Evans	17/03/1949	31 March 1889 - 3 April 1980
William Charles Evans	15/03/1979	1 October 1911 - 24 July 1988
Arthur Stewart Eve Arthur Stewart Eve Arthur Stewart Eve, CBE, FRS, FRSC was an English physicist who worked in Canada.Born in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, the son of John Richard and Frederica Eve, Eve was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was an assistant master and bursar at Marlborough College...	03/05/1917	22 November 1862 - 24 March 1948
Henry Eve	09/11/1681
George Evelyn George Evelyn George Evelyn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1689....	12/02/1829	16 September 1791 - 15 February 1829
John Evelyn John Evelyn John Evelyn was an English writer, gardener and diarist.Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February...	22/04/1663	31 October 1620 - 27 February 1706
John Evelyn Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton -Biography:He was born in Deptford, Kent, the son of John Evelyn the Younger, Barrister of the Middle Temple and Commissioner of the Revenue, and his wife, Martha, daughter of Richard Spencer. He was the grandson of the famous diarist John Evelyn...	17/01/1723	1 March 1682 - 15 July 1763 Baronet
George Everest George Everest Colonel Sir George Everest was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.Sir George was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance...	08/03/1827	4 July 1790 - 1 December 1866
Douglas Hugh Everett	20/03/1980	26 December 1916 – 24 June 2002
Joseph David Everett	12/06/1879	11 September 1831 - 9 August 1904
Barry John Everitt Barry Everitt (scientist) Barry Everitt ScD FRS FMedSci is Master of Downing College, Cambridge and a Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.He graduated in Zoology and Psychology at Hull University, received a Ph.D...	17/05/2007
John Evershed John Evershed John Evershed was an English astronomer. He was the first to observe radial motions in sunspots, a phenomenon known as the Evershed effect....	06/05/1915	27 February 1864 - 17 November 1956
Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald was a German-born U.S. crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods.-Education:...	20/03/1958	23 January 1888 - 22 August 1985
Alfred James Ewart Alfred James Ewart Alfred James Ewart, FRS, was an English-Australian botanist.Ewart was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, second son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha née Williams. Alfred was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, Liverpool, Ewart graduated Ph.D. at...	11/05/1922	13 February 1872 - 12 September 1937
James Cossar Ewart James Cossar Ewart James Cossar Ewart FRS was a Scottish zoologist. He was the son of John Ewart, a joiner, and Jean Cossar....	01/06/1893	26 November 1851 - 31 December 1933
Warren John Ewens	11/05/2000
Walter Ewer	21/05/1840	1784 - 5 January 1863
James Alfred Ewing James Alfred Ewing Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.It was said of Ewing that he was 'Careful at all times of his appearance,...	09/06/1887	27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935
Arthur James Ewins	18/03/1943	4 February 1882 - 24 December 1957
David John Ewins	18/05/2006
Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles	10/03/1743
Brian Leonard Eyre	10/05/2001
Kingsmill Eyre Kingsmill Eyre Kingsmill Eyre was Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, a garden designer, and the patentee of a process for making iron.-Family:Kingsmill was the youngest of five children of Samuel and Martha Eyre of New House, Whiteparish, Wiltshire...	12/05/1726
Richard Eyre	19/02/1767	1767 Clergyman
James Eyre James Eyre Sir James Eyre was an English judge, the son of the Rev. Thomas Eyre, of Wells, Somerset.-Biography:He was educated at Winchester College and at St John's College, Oxford, which he left without taking a degree. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1755, Thomas Parker, chief baron of the...	05/05/1791	? September 1734 - 1 July 1799

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Name	Election Date
Andrew Christopher Fabian Andrew Fabian Andrew Christopher Fabian, OBE, FRS is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010...	14/03/1996
Arthur Fage	19/03/1942	4 March 1890 - 7 November 1977
Jean Baptiste Faget	14/12/1752	1706 - 7 November 1762
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	07/05/1724	? 14 May 1686 - 16 September 1736
William Fairbairn William Fairbairn Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet was a Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder.-Early career:...	06/06/1850	20 February 1789 - 18 August 1874
Henry Colepeper Fairfax	11/01/1727	c 1697 - 14 October 1734
Neil Hamilton Fairley Neil Hamilton Fairley Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE CStJ FRACP FRCP FRCPE FRS was an Australian physician, medical scientist, and army officer; who was instrumental in saving thousands of Allied lives from malaria and other diseases....	19/03/1942	15 July 1891 - 20 April 1966
Norman Leslie Falcon	24/03/1960	29 May 1904 - 31 May 1996 Geologist, BP
Douglas Scott Falconer Douglas Scott Falconer Douglas Scott Falconer FRS FRSE was a British geneticist known for his work in quantitative genetics. Falconer's book Introduction to quantitative genetics was written in 1960 and became a valuable reference for generations of scientists. Its latest edition dates back to 1996 and is coauthored by...	15/03/1973	10 March 1913 – 23 February 2004
Hugh Falconer Hugh Falconer Hugh Falconer MD FRS was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium...	13/02/1845	30 February 1808 - 31 January 1865
William Falconer	18/03/1773	24 February 1744 - 31 August 1824 Physician, Chester & Bath
Fearon Fallows Fearon Fallows Fearon Fallows was an English astronomer.-Life:He was born in Cockermouth in Cumbria, the son of John Fallows, a weaver, and his wife Rebecca...	08/06/1820	4 July 1789 - 25 July 1831
Francis Fane Francis Fane (royalist) Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck K.B. supported the Royalist cause During the English Civil War.-Biography:Fane was the third, but second surviving, son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland....	20/05/1663	c 1612 - 1681 Original
Michael Faraday Michael Faraday Michael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....	08/01/1824	22 September 1791 - 25 August 1867
Giuseppe de Faria	30/11/1682
Francis James Macdonald Farley Francis Farley Francis James McDonald Farley FRS is a British scientist.During WWII he was heavily involved in the development of wartime microwave radar to control the Dover guns. He later took part in innovative experiments in particle physics at CERN and Brookhaven. He has worked on wave energy since 1976 and...	16/03/1972
David Malcolm Farmer	18/05/2006	Oceanographer, Rhode Island
Ernest Harold Farmer	18/03/1948	3 March 1890 - 13 April 1952 Chemist
Frank Reginald Farmer	19/03/1981	18 December 1914 - 10 June 2001
John Bretland Farmer John Bretland Farmer Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS was a British botanist, born at Atherstone and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was fellow of Magdalen in 1889–1897, demonstrator of botany in 1887–1892, and assistant professor of biology in 1892–1895 at Oxford, and then became professor of botany in the ...	14/06/1900	5 April 1865 - 26 January 1944
Richard Farmer Richard Farmer Dr Richard Farmer was a Shakespearean scholar and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is known for his Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare , in which he maintained that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced.-Life:He was born at...	17/02/1791	28 August 1735 - 8 September 1797
Graham Douglas Farquhar	09/03/1995
Robert Townsend Farquhar Robert Townsend Farquhar Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, 1st Baronet was an influential British merchant of the early nineteenth century who served as a colonial governor and Member of Parliament.During his lengthy service for both the East India Company and the British government,Farquhar gained a reputation as an...	20/01/1820	14 October 1776 - 16 March 1830
James Farquharson James Farquharson James Farquharson was a Scottish minister, scientific writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:Farquharson was the son of John Farquharson, excise officer at Coull, Aberdeenshire, and was born in that parish in 1781. After attending the parochial school at Coull he proceeded to King's...	28/01/1830	1781 - 3 December 1843
Clinton Coleridge Farr	10/05/1928	22 May 1866 - 27 January 1943
Samuel Farr Samuel Farr (physician) -Life:Farr was born at Taunton, Somerset, in 1741. His parents were protestant Dissenters. He was educated first at Warrington Academy, then at Edinburgh University, and finally at Leyden University, where he took the degree of M.D....	25/02/1779	1741 - 11 March 1795 English physician
William Farr William Farr William Farr was a nineteenth-century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.-Early life:He was born in Kenley, Shropshire, England to poor parents...	07/06/1855	30 November 1807 - 14 April 1883 statistician
Francis Farr	01/03/1770
Frederick William Farrar	07/06/1866	7 August 1831 - 22 March 1903
Arthur Farre Arthur Farre Arthur Farre , was an English obstetric physician.-Life:Farre was the younger son of Dr. John Richard Farre of Charterhouse Square, London. He was born in London on 6 March 1811. He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Caius College, Cambridge. After studying medicine at St. Bartholomew's...	02/05/1839	6 March 1811 - 17 December 1887
William Scott Farren	22/03/1945	3 April 1892 - 3 July 1970
Michael John Robert Fasham Michael Fasham Michael John Robert Fasham, FRS was a British oceanographer and ecosystem modeller. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of open ocean plankton ecosystem models....	11/05/2000	1942 - 7 June 2008 Oceanographer
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Nicolas Fatio de Duillier was a Swiss mathematician known for his work on the zodiacal light problem, for his very close relationship with Isaac Newton, for his role in the Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy, and for originating the "push" or "shadow" theory of gravitation...	02/05/1688	17 February 1664 - ? 12 May 1753
Jean Christophe Fatio Jean Christophe Fatio Jean Christophe Fatio was a Swiss natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was the elder brother of Nicolas Fatio. He was elected F.R.S. on 3 April 1706 and published in the Philosophical Transactions a description of an eclipse of the sun which he had observed at Geneva on 12 May...	03/04/1706
Paul Fatt	20/03/1969
Francis Fauquier Francis Fauquier Francis Fauquier was a Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony , and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768. He was married to Catherine Dalston....	15/02/1753	? July 1703 - 3 March 1768
William Fauquier	29/01/1747
Edward Fawcett	03/05/1923	18 May 1867 - 22 September 1942
Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett PC was a blind British academic, statesman and economist.-Background and education:Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: entering Peterhouse in 1852, he migrated to Trinity Hall the following year, and became a fellow...	12/01/1882	26 August 1833 - 6 November 1884
Jonathan Fawconer	05/02/1736
Charles François de Cisternay du Fay	08/05/1729	14 September 1698 - 16 July 1739
Charles de la Faye	04/11/1725
Joseph Fayrer Joseph Fayrer Sir Joseph Fayrer, 1st Baronet was an English physician noted for his writings on medicine in India.The son of a Commander in the Royal Navy, he was born at Plymouth, Devon. After studying medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, London, he was in 1847 appointed medical officer of HMS Victory...	07/06/1877	6 December 1824 - ? 19 May 1907
Charles Feake	26/01/1749	c 1716 - 2 August 1762
William George Fearnsides William George Fearnsides William George Fearnsides FRS was a British geologist....	05/05/1932	10 November 1879 - 15 May 1968
Douglas Thomas Fearon	13/05/1999
William James Feast	14/03/1996
Norman Feather Norman Feather Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE , was an English physicist.He was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1945 to 1975, then Emeritus Professor...	22/03/1945	16 November 1904 - 14 August 1978
George William Featherstonhaugh George William Featherstonhaugh George William Featherstonhaugh FRS was a British geologist and geographer who initiated the Albany and Schenectady Railroad and was a surveyor of the Louisiana Purchase for the US Government....	02/04/1835	1780 - 27 September 1866
Nicasius le Febure Nicasius le Febure Nicasius le Febure, a.k.a. Nicolas le Febure or Nicasius le Fevre or Nicolas le Fèvre , was a French chemist and alchemist who was appointed to positions by both French and English royalty.-Life and work:...	20/05/1663	c 1610 - ? April 1669 Original
Geoffrey Feilden	19/03/1959	21 February 1917 – 1 May 2004
Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg	20/03/1947	19 November 1900 - 23 October 1993
Marc Feldmann Marc Feldmann Sir Marc Feldmann is an Australian immunologist, and a professor at the Imperial College School of Medicine where he is a head of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.-Biography:...	18/05/2006	2 December 1944 -
Arthur Felix Arthur Felix Arthur Felix, FRS was a Polish bacteriologist and serologist.Arthur Felix was the son of Theodor Felix, who had a interest in printed textiles and who encouraged his son to study textile dye chemistry. Felix studied chemistry in Vienna and was awarded a D.Sc...	18/03/1943	3 April 1887 - 14 January 1956
Honor Bridget Fell	20/03/1952	22 May 1900 - 22 April 1986
Peter Berners Fellgett	20/03/1986
James Fellowes James Fellowes (physician) Sir James Fellowes was a British physician.-Life:He was the third son of William Fellowes, physician-extraordinary to the prince regent - he was elder brother to the naval captain Thomas Fellowes...	29/02/1816	1771 - 30 December 1857
William Fellowes	30/11/1704	4 October 1660 - 19 January 1724
William Fellowes	04/11/1731	1705 - 30 January 1775
William Fellowes	30/11/1708	fl 1708
Samuel Felton	09/12/1762
Frank John Fenner	20/03/1958
Henry John Horstman Fenton Henry John Horstman Fenton Henry John Horstman Fenton was a British chemist who, in the 1890s invented Fenton's reagent, a solution of hydrogen peroxide and an iron catalyst that is used to oxidize contaminants or waste waters...	01/06/1899	19 February 1854 - 13 January 1929
West Fenton	02/05/1723	c 1699 - 1731 Barrister
Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Ferdinand Albert , Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a relative of the princes of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel....	25/01/1665	22 May 1636 - 23 April 1687 Royal
Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, FRS FRSE is a British geneticist.He was born in Glasgow in 1931, the son of physician John Ferguson-Smith and graduated from Glasgow University in 1955 with a degree in Medicine. In 1955-1956 he was House Physician and House Surgeon at the Western Infirmary in...	17/03/1983	Geneticist
James Ferguson	24/11/1763	25 April 1710 - 16 November 1776
Michael Anthony John Ferguson	11/05/2000
Robert Ferguson	07/03/1805	1767 - 3 December 1840
Finlay Fergusson	21/06/1798	1798
James Fergusson James Fergusson (architect) James Fergusson , was a Scottish writer on architecture.-Life:Fergusson was born at Ayr, the son of William Fergusson an army surgeon. After being educated first at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and then at a private school in Hounslow, he went to Calcutta as a partner in a mercantile house...	04/06/1863	22 January 1808 - 9 January 1886
William Fergusson William Fergusson Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet FRCS FRS was a Scottish surgeon.-Biography:William Fergusson son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian on 20 March 1808, and was educated first at Lochmaben and afterwards at the high school and University of...	09/06/1848	20 March 1808 - ? 11 February 1877
Lewis Leigh Fermor Lewis Leigh Fermor Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor OBE FRS was an English geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy...	03/05/1934	18 September 1880 - 24 May 1954
Thomas William Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret	14/03/1805	22 November 1770 - 29 June 1833
Benedict Ferner	11/12/1760	10 November 1724 - 18 November 1802
Jean Baptiste de Feronce	28/06/1764	23 October 1723 - 19 July 1799
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti was an electrical engineer and inventor.-Personal life:...	12/05/1927	9 April 1864 - 13 January 1930
Domenico Ferrari	14/11/1723
Norman Macleod Ferrers Norman Macleod Ferrers Norman Macleod Ferrers was a British mathematician and university administrator.-Life:Ferrers was educated at Eton College before studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler in 1851. He was appointed to a Fellowship at the college in 1852, and was ordained in...	07/06/1877	11 August 1829 - 31 January 1903
David Ferrier David Ferrier Sir David Ferrier, FRS was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist.-Life:Ferrier was born in Woodside, Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School before studying for an MA at Aberdeen University...	01/06/1876	13 January 1843 - 19 March 1928
Samuel Ferris	30/03/1797
Alan Roy Fersht	17/03/1983
Edward Robert Festing Edward Robert Festing Major-General Edward Robert Festing CB FRS , English army officer, chemist, and first Director of the Science Museum in London. He contributed to infrared spectroscopy research with Sir William Abney in the 1880s....	04/06/1886	10 August 1839 - 16 May 1912
Matthew Fetherstonhaugh Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 1st Baronet Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 1st Baronet FRS pronounced "fan-shaw" was an English politician and landowner.He was the son of Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of Featherstone Castle, Northumberland. In 1746 he inherited the estates of a kinsman Sir Henry Fetherston but not Sir Henry's baronetcy which became...	13/02/1752	1715 - 18 March 1774
Robert Fettiplace	15/03/1990
Raymond James Wood Le Fevre	19/03/1959	1 April 1905 - 26 August 1986
Sir Martin ffolkes, 1st Baronet	02/04/1772	1749–1821
Sir William ffolkes, 2nd Baronet Sir William ffolkes, 2nd Baronet Sir William John Henry Browne ffolkes, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1830 to 1837....	10/04/1834	20 August 1786 - 24 March 1860
Frederick Field Frederick Field (chemist) Frederick Field was an English chemist, born in Lambeth on 2 August 1826. He was the second son, by his second wife, of Charles Field, of the firm of J. C. & J. Field, candle manufacturers, etc. Educated at Denmark Hill grammar school and at Mr...	04/06/1863	2 August 1826 - 3 April 1885 chemistry professor, London
John Edwin Field	10/03/1994
Joshua Field Joshua Field (engineer) Joshua Field was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.Field was born in Hackney in 1786, his father was John Field a corn and seed merchant who was later to become Master of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors...	03/03/1836	c 1786 - 11 August 1863
Arthur Mostyn Field	11/05/1905	27 June 1855 - 3 July 1950
George Hunsley Fielding	05/05/1842	26 October 1801 - 24 May 1871
John Charles Fields John Charles Fields John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics...	01/05/1913	14 May 1863 - 9 August 1932
Paul Gordon Fildes	03/05/1934	11 February 1882 - 5 February 1971 Fellow
Petrus Filenius	26/01/1738	1704–1777
Louis Napoleon George Filon	05/05/1910	22 November 1875 - 29 December 1937
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea PC , was an English Tory statesman during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.-Early life:...	26/11/1668	2 July 1647 - 1 January 1730
George Ingle Finch	17/03/1938	4 August 1888 - 22 November 1970
George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea KG PC FRS was an important figure in the history of cricket. His main contributions to the game were patronage and organisation but Winchilsea, an amateur, was also a very keen player....	07/05/1807	4 November 1752 - 2 August 1826
Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford PC, FRS, FSA , styled Lord Guernsey between 1757 and 1777, was a British peer, politician and artist.-Background and education:...	25/02/1773	4 July 1751 - 20 October 1812
Henry Finch	28/10/1742
John Thomas Finch	18/03/1982
John Finch	20/05/1663	1626 - 18 November 1682 Original, physician & diplomat
Thomas Finch	13/12/1804	1 July 1756 - 23 March 1810 Lawyer & Scholar
John Robert Stanley Fincham	20/03/1969	11 August 1926 – 9 February 2005
Bland James Finlay	27/05/2004	biologist
John Finlay	05/06/1788	? 17 February 1760 - 26 June 1802 Military Engineer
David John Finney	17/03/1955
Harold Montague Finniston Monty Finniston Sir Harold Montague "Monty" Finniston was a British industrialist born in Glasgow, Scotland.Monty Finniston read metallurgical chemistry at Glasgow University, where he gained his PhD and then lectured in metallurgy. He spent the years of the Second World War in the Royal Naval Scientific Service...	20/03/1969	15 August 1912 - 2 February 1991
Thomas Firmin Thomas Firmin Thomas Firmin was an English businessman and philanthropist, and Unitarian publisher.-Early life:Firmin was born to Puritan parents, Henry and Prudence Firmin in Ipswich. Henry Firmin was a parishioner of Samuel Ward, the Puritan incumbent of St. Mary-le-Tower, by whom in 1635 he was accused of...	29/01/1680	June 1632 - 20 December 1697
Johann Benjamin Fischer	15/11/1744	1720 - ? 30 April 1760
William Lewis Ferdinand Fischer	07/06/1855	? 3 May 1813 - 8 January 1890
George Fisher George Fisher (scientist) The Reverend George Fisher FRS FRAS was a British Arctic scientist.-Early life:He was born in Sunbury, Middlesex, England, the son of surveyor James Fisher and his wife Henrietta. In 1808 he became a clerk in the Westminster Fire Insurance Company at the age of 14...	27/01/1825	31 July 1794 - 14 May 1873 arctic scientist
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher	24/06/1920	22 March 1865 - 18 April 1940 Statute
John Fisher John Fisher (Anglican bishop) John Fisher , D.D. was a 19th-century Church of England bishop, serving as Bishop of Exeter then Bishop of Salisbury.-Life:...	18/03/1819	1748 - 8 May 1825
Michael Ellis Fisher	18/03/1971
Ronald Aylmer Fisher	02/05/1929	18 February 1890 - 29 July 1962
Alastair Hugh Fitter	26/05/2005
William Henry Fitton William Henry Fitton William Henry Fitton was an Irish geologist-Biography:Fitton was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College in that city. He gained the senior scholarship in 1798, and graduated in the following year. At this time he began to take an interest in geology and to form a collection of fossils...	09/11/1815	January 1780 - 13 May 1861
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster	13/01/1820	29 January 1794 - 20 March 1842
George Francis Fitzgerald	07/06/1883	3 August 1851 - ? 22
Keane Fitzgerald	25/03/1756
Maurice Fitzgerald Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry was an hereditary knight and an Irish Whig politician.FitzGerald represented Kerry in the Irish House of Commons from 1795 until the Act of Union in 1801. He sat also for Tralee in 1800....	04/02/1813	29 December 1774 - 7 March 1849
William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey PC, PC , FRS, FSA was an Irish statesman.-Background and education:...	02/05/1816	24 July 1783 - 11 May 1843
William Fitzherbert	11/11/1762	1712 - ? 3 January 1772
John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall John Hamilton FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall , known as John FitzMaurice until 1791, was a British politician.-Background:...	12/04/1804	9 October 1778 - 23 November 1820
Maurice Fitzmaurice Maurice Fitzmaurice Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British...	15/05/1919	11 May 1861 - 17 November 1924
John Fitzpatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory , styled Lord Gowran from 1751 to 1758, was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament....	17/02/1780	May 1745 - 1 February 1818 Fellow 17/02/1781
Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton KG PC was an Irish and English politician.He was born the only child of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton and Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington...	23/11/1749	25 October 1683 - 6 May 1757
Robert FitzRoy Robert FitzRoy Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality...	05/06/1851	5 July 1805 - 30 April 1865
James Thomas Fitzsimons	17/03/1988
Richard Fitzwilliam, 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam, KB, FRS was a Irish peer, and property developer.He lived with his father-in-law at Richmond Green.He moved back to Mount Merrion.He was buried at Donnybrook Cemetery....	17/12/1747	? July 1711 - 25 April 1776
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam was an Irish Viscount in the FitzWilliam family who was a benefactor and musical antiquarian. He founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, with a bequest of his library and art collection on his death in 1816...	05/03/1789	August 1745 - 4 February 1816
John Flamsteed John Flamsteed Sir John Flamsteed FRS was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued over 3000 stars.- Life :Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed...	08/02/1677	19 August 1646 - 31 December 1719
Thomas Flatman Thomas Flatman Thomas Flatman was an English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs . One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London...	30/04/1668	c 1637 - 8 December 1688
Richard Anthony Flavell	15/03/1984
Richard Bailey Flavell	14/05/1998
Alexander Fleck, Baron Fleck of Saltcoats Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck KBE was a British industrial chemist.-Background and education:Fleck born and educated in Glasgow. He attained a doctorate of science from Glasgow University in the chemistry of radioactive substances...	17/03/1955	11 November 1889 - 6 August 1968
Norman Andrew Fleck	27/05/2004
Martin Fleischmann Martin Fleischmann Martin Fleischmann is a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. He came to wider public prominence following his controversial publication of work with colleague Stanley Pons on cold fusion using palladium in the 1980s and '90s.-Early life:Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia,...	20/03/1986
Graham Richard Fleming	10/03/1994
Ian Fleming Ian Fleming (chemist) Ian Fleming is an English organic chemist, and an emeritus professor of the University of Cambridge, and an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was the first to determine the full structure of chlorophyll and was involved in the development of the synthesis of cyanocobalamin by...	11/03/1993
John Fleming John Fleming (1747-1829) John Fleming was a British surgeon of the Indian Medical Service, naturalist, and politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Gatton 1818–1820, Saltash 1820–1826.-References:...	25/02/1813	1747 - 17 May 1829
Alexander Fleming Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy...	18/03/1943	6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955
Charles Alexander Fleming	16/03/1967	9 September 1916 - 11 September 1987
John Ambrose Fleming John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule...	02/06/1892	29 November 1849 - 18 April 1945
Isaac Fletcher	07/06/1855	23 February 1827 - 3 April 1879 Fellow 07/06/1855
Roger Fletcher Roger Fletcher Roger Fletcher is a prolific, award-winning Australian cartoonist and illustrator. His first comic strip, Torkan first appeared in the Australian Sunday Telegraph in June 1976 and his second comic strip, Staria, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction adventure, has appeared in the pages of the...	15/05/2003
Lazarus Fletcher Lazarus Fletcher Sir Lazarus Fletcher was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1912. Fletcher was knighted in 1916....	06/06/1889	3 March 1854 - 6 January 1921
Walter Morley Fletcher Walter Morley Fletcher Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, KBE FRS was a British physiologist and administrator. Fletcher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was most significant in his administration of the Medical Research Council during the interwar years...	06/05/1915	21 July 1873 - 7 June 1933
Thomas William Fletcher	21/03/1839	? 25 May 1808 - 01
John Smith Flett John Smith Flett Sir John Smith Flett KBE FRS was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917, made KBE in 1925 and won the Wollaston Medal in 1935.In the mid 1970s, the then new, glass-faced structure...	01/05/1913	26 June 1869 - 26 January 1947
Herbert John Fleure Herbert John Fleure Herbert John Fleure FRS , was a zoologist and geographer. He was secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of Geography, and President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association.-Early years:...	07/05/1936	6 June 1877 - 1 July 1969
Walter Flight Walter Flight Walter FLight , was an English mineralogist.Flight, the son of William P. Flight of Winchester, was born in Winchester 21 January 1841. He was educated at Queenwood College, Hampshire, where Debus then taught chemistry and Professor Tyndall physics, and in after life Debus was his constant friend...	07/06/1883	21 January 1841 - 4 November 1885
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston	20/03/1941	25 September 1898 - 21 February 1968 Fellow 20/03/1941, PRS 1960-1965
Flower	20/02/1668	fl 1668
Roderick John Flower	15/05/2003
William Henry Flower William Henry Flower Sir William Henry Flower KCB FRCS FRS was an English comparative anatomist and surgeon. Flower became a leading authority on mammals, and especially on the primate brain...	02/06/1864	30 November 1831 - 1 July 1899
Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers of Queen's Gate in the City of Westminster Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS was a British physicist and academican.-Early life and studies:The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers, he was educated at the Bishop Gore School in Swansea and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts...	16/03/1961	13 September 1924 - 25 June 2010
Thomas Fludyer	12/02/1767
Henry Fly	10/05/1781	1781
Gordon Elliott Fogg Gordon Elliott Fogg -Early life:He was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire and educated at Dulwich College and Queen Mary College, London.-Career:During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algaes used to make water soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea...	18/03/1965	26 April 1919 – 30 January 2005
Jean Charles Folard	08/02/1750	14 February 1669 - 23 March 1752
Richard Foley Richard Foley (politician) Richard Foley was a Member of Parliament for the Borough of Droitwich, being both preceded and succeeded by his brother, Edward Foley. He was son of Thomas Foley and thus a grandson of the ironmaster Thomas Foley . He died without issue.- References :* Burkes Peerage...	30/11/1708	20 February 1681 - 27 March 1732
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766) Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley was the eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley and inherited the vast Great Witley estate on his father's death in 1733, including ironworks at Wilden and Shelsley Walsh....	27/11/1740	c 1703 - 8 January 1766
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley of Kidderminster Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673–1733) Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley was the eldest son of Thomas Foley and inherited the Great Witley estate on his father's death...	15/07/1696	8 November 1673 - 22 January 1733
Martin Folkes Martin Folkes Martin Folkes FRS , English antiquary, was born in London.He was educated at Saumur University and Clare College, Cambridge, where he so distinguished himself in mathematics that when only twenty-three years of age he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society...	29/07/1714	29 October 1690 - ? 28 June 1754, PRS 1741-1752
William Folkes	09/03/1727	c 1700 - 9 April 1773
Brian Keith Follett Brian Follett Professor Sir Brian Keith Follett FRS chaired the UK government's Training and Development Agency for Schools from 2003-9. The TDA is responsible for recruiting to the teaching profession Professor Sir Brian Keith Follett FRS (born 22 February 1939) chaired the UK government's Training and...	15/03/1984
Sydney John Folley	15/03/1951	14 January 1906 - 29 June 1970
Gregorio Fontana Gregorio Fontana Gregorio Fontana was an Italian mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates....	16/04/1795	7 December 1735 - 24 August 1803
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle , also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author.Fontenelle was born in Rouen, France and died in Paris just one month before his 100th birthday. His mother was the sister of great French dramatists Pierre and Thomas Corneille...	18/01/1733	12 February 1657 - 9 January 1757
David Forbes	03/06/1858	6 September 1828 - 5 December 1876
Edward Forbes Edward Forbes Professor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS was a Manx naturalist.-Early years:Forbes was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. While still a child, when not engaged in reading, or in the writing of verses and drawing of caricatures, he occupied himself with the collecting of insects, shells, minerals,...	13/02/1845	13 February 1815 - 18 November 1854
George Forbes George Forbes (scientist) George Forbes FRS was an electrical engineer, astronomer, explorer, author and inventor, some of whose inventions are still in use.-Early life:...	09/06/1887	5 April 1849 - 22 October 1936
James Forbes James Forbes (artist) James Forbes was a British artist and writer. Born in London to a Scots family, Forbes travelled to India in 1765 as a writer for the British East India Company and was resident there until 1784. He was a prolific writer and artist and filled 52,000 manuscript pages with notes and sketches...	24/03/1803	1749 - 1 August 1819
James David Forbes James David Forbes James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at the University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St...	09/06/1832	20 April 1809 - 31 December 1868
John Forbes John Forbes (physician) Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS was a distinguished Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text, De L'Auscultation Mediate by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope...	05/02/1829	18 October 1787 - 13 November 1861
William Nairn Forbes	21/02/1822	3 April 1796 - 1 May 1855
Charles Edmund Ford	18/03/1965	24 October 1912 - 7 January 1999
Edmund Brisco Ford	21/03/1946	23 April 1901 - 22 January 1988
Henry Ford Henry Ford Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...	22/07/1663	? January 1617 - ? September 1684
Hugh Ford Hugh Ford (engineer) Sir Hugh Ford FREng FRS was a British engineer. He was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1951 to 1978....	16/03/1967	16 July 1913 - 28 May 2010 Prof of Engineering, Imperial College
Richard Ford	27/11/1673	1613 - 31 August 1678 Commissioner and MP
George Fordyce George Fordyce George Fordyce was a distinguished Scottish physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.-Early life:...	15/02/1776	18 November 1736 - 25 May 1802
William Fordyce William Fordyce -Life:The son of Provost George Fordyce of Aberdeen, and brother of David Fordyce, was born at Aberdeen in 1724, and educated at Marischal College; also serving a medical pupilage with a local practitioner and with his brother John at Uppingham in 1743...	11/01/1787	1724 - 4 December 1792 Scottish Physician
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey was a German author who wrote in French.-Life:Formey was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of immigrant Huguenots. He was educated for the ministry, and at the age of twenty became pastor of the French Protestant church at Brandenburg...	25/01/1750	31 May 1711 - 8 March 1797
Ippolito Fornasari	29/04/1696	9 March 1628 - 26 November 1697
John Samuel Forrest John Samuel Forrest John Samuel Forrest FRS was a Scottish-born physicist, author and Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde.- Early life and education:...	17/03/1966	20 August 1907 - 11 November 1992
Josiah Forshall Josiah Forshall Josiah Forshall , was an English librarian.Forshall was born at Witney in Oxfordshire on 29 March 1795, was the eldest son of Samuel Forshall. He received some of his education at the grammar schools of Exeter and Chester, and in 1814 entered Exeter College, Oxford. He graduated B.A. in 1818,...	12/06/1828	29 March 1795 - 18 December 1863
Clive Forster-Cooper	07/05/1936	3 April 1880 - 23 August 1947
Edward Forster	22/02/1821	13 October 1765 - 23 February 1849 Botanist
Edward Forster	10/12/1801	12 June 1769 - 18 February 1828 Clergyman & Writer
Georg Forster Georg Forster Johann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...	09/01/1777	27 November 1754 - 10 January 1794
Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America...	27/02/1772	22 October 1729 - 9 December 1798
Nathaniel Forster	01/05/1755	4 February 1718 - 20 October 1757
Martin Onslow Forster Martin Onslow Forster Sir Martin Onslow Forster, FRS was a chemist and a director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India....	11/05/1905	8 November 1872 - 24 May 1945
Thomas Forster	19/06/1766
Thomas Forster	04/12/1706	fl 1706 - 1727
William Edward Forster William Edward Forster William Edward Forster PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.-Early life:...	08/04/1875	11 July 1818 - 5 April 1886
Andrew Russell Forsyth	04/06/1886	18 June 1858 - 2 June 1942
Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue	05/06/1817	14 February 1783 - 14 September 1861
Richard Alan Fortey Richard Fortey Richard A. Fortey FRS is a British palaeontologist and writer.-Career:Richard Fortey studied geology at the University of Cambridge and had a long career as a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Prof. Fortey’s research interests include, above all, trilobites...	15/05/1997
Alberto Fortis Alberto Fortis Abbe Alberto Fortis , was a Venetian writer, naturalist and cartographer.Alberto Fortis was born in Padua on either 9 or 11 of November 1741. He journeyed extensively in Dalmatia...	16/04/1795	August 1741 - 21 October 1803
Marco Foscarini Marco Foscarini Marco Foscarini was a Venetian statesman who served as the 117th Doge of Venice from May 31, 1762 until his death. He studied in his youth in Bologna, and was active as a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Rome and Turin; he also served as the procurator of St. Mark for a time...	08/02/1759	1696–1763
Brian Foster	16/05/2008	Professor of Physics, Oxford University
George Carey Foster	03/06/1869	21 October 1835 - 9 February 1919
Henry Foster Henry Foster (scientist) Henry Foster was a British naval officer who took part in expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and made various notable scientific observations....	06/05/1824	August 1796 - 5 February 1831
John Leslie Foster John Leslie Foster John Leslie Foster, FRS was an Irish Tory Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament.The son of Lord Bishop Foster , he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He represented Dublin University from 1807 to 1812, having first contested the seat in 1806...	04/02/1819
John Stuart Foster John Stuart Foster John Stuart Foster was a Canadian physicist.Born in Clarence, Nova Scotia, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale University with a dissertation on the first measurements of the Stark effect in Helium. In 1924 he gained an appointment as assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal where he taught...	16/05/1935	28 May 1890 - 9 September 1964
John Foster, Baron Oriel	20/02/1806	? September 1740 - 23 August 1828
Clement Le Neve Foster Clement le Neve Foster Sir Clement le Neve Foster FRS , English geologist and mineralogist- Life and work :Le Neve Foster was born at Camberwell, the second son of Peter le Neve Foster...	02/06/1892	23 March 1841 - 19 April 1904
Michael Foster Michael Foster (physiologist) Sir Michael Foster was an English physiologist.He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London....	06/06/1872	8 March 1836 - 28 January 1907
Russell Grant Foster Russell G. Foster Russell Grant Foster, FRS is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, currently based at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford. He and his group are credited with the discovery of the non-rod, non-cone, photosensitive ganglion cells in the mammalian retina which provide input to the...	16/05/2008
Anthony Fothergill Anthony Fothergill (physician) -Life:Fothergill was born in 1732, or, according to other accounts, 1735, in Sedbergh, Yorkshire. He studied medicine at the university of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. October 1763 with a dissertation ‘De Febre Intermittente,’ and afterwards continued his studies at Leyden and Paris. By the...	12/11/1778	? 1732 - 11 May 1813
John Fothergill John Fothergill (physician) John Fothergill FRS was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker.- Life and work :...	23/06/1763	8 March 1712 - 26 December 1780
Jean Paul Grandjean de Fouchy	18/12/1740	17 March 1707 - 15 April 1788
Etienne Fourmont Étienne Fourmont Étienne Fourmont was a French orientalist.Born at Herblay near Argenteuil, he studied at the Collège Mazarin in Paris and afterwards in the Collège Montaigu where his attention was attracted to Oriental languages....	09/11/1738	1683 - 18 December 1745
Michel Fourmont	04/11/1742	1690–1746
Gideon Fournier	15/05/1783
Leslie Fowden	19/03/1964
Alfred Fowler Alfred Fowler Alfred Fowler, FRS was an English astronomer. Not to be confused with American astrophysicist William Alfred Fowler....	05/05/1910	22 March 1868 - 24 June 1940
David Fowler	09/05/2002	Professor, Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh
Peter Howard Fowler Peter Fowler (physicist) Peter Fowler FRS was a British physicist. His father was the physicist Sir Ralph Howard Fowler, who determined the state of matter in white-dwarf stars, and his grandfather, a giant of 20th century physics, Lord Ernest Rutherford, who discovered the atomic nucleus.Peter researched primary cosmic...	19/03/1964	28 February 1923 - 8 November 1996
Richard Fowler	01/04/1802	28 November 1765 - 13 April 1863
Ralph Howard Fowler	07/05/1925	17 January 1889 - 28 July 1944
George Fownes George Fownes George Fownes, FRS was a British chemist.He attended the Palace School in Enfield. He obtained his PhD at Giesen, in Germany. From 1842 he was chemistry professor at the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and from 1846 at University College, London. He was also secretary of the Chemical...	13/02/1845	14 May 1815 - 31 January 1849
Harold Munro Fox Harold Munro Fox For the basketball player see Harold Fox Harold Munro Fox FRS was a British zoologist.He was born Harold Munro Fuchs in Clapham, London in 1889 to George Gotthilf Fuchs, a former captain in the Prussian Army, and Margaret Isabella Campbell Munro, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Munro of the...	06/05/1937	28 September 1889 - 29 January 1967
Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century...	19/12/1811	21 November 1773 - 22 October 1840
Robert Were Fox Robert Were Fox the Younger Robert Were Fox FRS was a British geologist, natural philosopher and inventor. He is known mainly for his work on the temperature of the earth and his construction of a compass to measure magnetic dip at sea....	09/06/1848	26 April 1789 - 25 July 1877
John Jacob Fox	18/03/1943	12 April 1874 - 28 November 1944
Wilson Fox Wilson Fox Wilson Fox , was an English physician.Fox was the son of a manufacturer belonging to a well-known Quaker family in the west of England. He was born at Wellington, Somersetshire, on 2 November 1831. He was educated at Bruce Castle School, Tottenham, and University College, London, graduating B.A. in...	06/06/1872	2 November 1831 - 3 May 1887
Charles Thomas Bayley Foxon	18/05/2006
John William Fozard	19/03/1987	16 January 1928 - 17 July 1996
Ludwig Edward Fraenkel	11/03/1993
Alexander Fraizer Alexander Fraizer Sir Alexander Fraizer , was a Scottish physician.Fraizer was born in Scotland about 1610, and graduated M.D. at Montpelier on 1 Oct. 1635. He was incorporated at Cambridge 9 March 1637, and was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of London on 23 Nov. 1641. He was a faithful royalist,...	08/07/1663	c 1610 - 3 May 1681
Francis I, Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real power of those positions. With his wife, Maria Theresa, he was the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty...	18/11/1731	8 December 1708 - 18 August 1765
James Franck	12/07/1821	1768 - 27 January 1843 Army physician
Georg Franck von Franckenau Georg Franck von Franckenau Georg Franck von Franckenau was a German physician and botanist.- Life :Georg Franck studied medicine and anatomy in Strasbourg, he received his M.D. in 1666....	30/11/1693	3 May 1644 - 16 June 1704
Frederick Charles Frank Frederick Charles Frank Sir Frederick Charles Frank FRS was a British theoretical physicist.He was born in Durban, South Africa, although his parents returned to England soon afterwards...	18/03/1954	11 March 1911 - 5 April 1998
Otto Herzberg Frankel	19/03/1953	4 November 1900 - 21 November 1998
Percy Faraday Frankland	04/06/1891	3 October 1858 - 28 October 1946
Edward Frankland Edward Frankland Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS was a chemist, one of the foremost of his day. He was an expert in water quality and analysis, and originated the concept of combining power, or valence, in chemistry. He was also one of the originators of organometallic chemistry.-Biography:Edward Frankland was born...	02/06/1853	18 January 1825 - 9 August 1899
Thomas Frankland Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Frankland, 3rd Baronet , of Thirkelby in Yorkshire, was an English Member of Parliament.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet, and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1700. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 30 October...	12/03/1707	c 1683 - 17 April 1747 3rd Baronet
Thomas Frankland	10/06/1773	September 1750 - 4 January 1831 6th Baronet
William Frankland	12/03/1707
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...	29/05/1756	17 January 1706 - 17 April 1790
James Franklin James Franklin (naturalist) James Franklin was a British soldier. He was the brother of Sir John Franklin.James Franklin entered the service of the British East India Company as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the Royal Society. He was in the 1st Bengal...	02/02/1826	c 1783 - 31 August 1834 Naturalist
Kenneth James Franklin	17/03/1955	25 November 1897 - 8 May 1966
Norman Laurence Franklin	19/03/1981	1 September 1924 - 7 November 1986
John Franklin John Franklin Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic...	20/02/1823	16 April 1786 - 11 June 1847
William Franklin	18/05/1820	c 1765 - 29 October 1833 Physician
Naphthali Franks	03/05/1764	c 1714 - 31 August 1796
Augustus Wollaston Franks Augustus Wollaston Franks Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks KCB was an English antiquary and museum administrator. Franks was described by Marjorie Caygill, historian of the British Museum, as "arguably the most important collector in the history of the British Museum, and one of the greatest collectors of his age".-Early...	04/06/1874	20 March 1826 - 21 May 1897
William Franks	08/03/1781
William Franks	12/12/1811	1788 - 14 November 1860
Archibald Campbell Fraser	08/01/1778	16 August 1736 - 8 December 1815
Francis Charles Fraser Francis Charles Fraser Francis Charles Fraser, born 16 June 1903 died 21 October 1978, was one of the world's leading authorities on cetacea . He worked at the British Museum of Natural History from 1933 to 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966.Fraser's dolphin is named in his honour....	17/03/1966	16 June 1903 - 21 October 1978
Thomas Richard Fraser Thomas Richard Fraser - Life :Fraser made his studies at the University of Edinburgh and took his Ph.D. in 1862. In 1869 Fraser was a medical assistant professor at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1877 he was a member of an arctic expedition and later in 1877 was appointed professor of medicine at the University of...	07/06/1877	6 February 1841 - 4 January 1920
William Fraser	14/04/1791
Derek John Fray	16/05/2008
Robert Alexander Frazer	21/03/1946	6 February 1891 - 10 December 1959
Augustus Simon Frazer	20/06/1816	5 September 1776 - 4 June 1835
James George Frazer	24/06/1920	2 January 1854 - 7 May 1941 Statute
Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony	13/06/1844	18 May 1797 - 9 August 1854 Royal
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany	26/01/1789	16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827 Royal
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales	17/12/1728	6 January 1707 - 20 March 1751 Royal
Frederick William IV, King of Prussia Frederick William IV of Prussia |align=right|Upon his accession, he toned down the reactionary policies enacted by his father, easing press censorship and promising to enact a constitution at some point, but he refused to enact a popular legislative assembly, preferring to work with the aristocracy through "united committees" of...	20/01/1842	15 October 1795 - 2 June 1861 Royal
Charles Frederick Charles Frederick Sir Charles Frederick KB was a British Member of Parliament.He was a younger son of Sir Thomas Frederick, sometime Governor of Fort St David, and a younger brother of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet....	24/05/1733	21 December 1709 - 18 December 1785
John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale PC, KC, FRS , known as Sir John Mitford between 1793 and 1802, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1801 and 1802 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1802 and 1806.-Background:Born in London, Mitford was the...	06/03/1794	18 August 1748 - 16 January 1830
Charles Freeman	15/06/1797
Kenneth Charles Freeman	14/05/1998
Matthew John Aylmer Freeman	18/05/2006
Raymond Freeman	15/03/1979
Francis Arthur Freeth	07/05/1925	2 January 1884 - 15 July 1970
John Freind John Freind John Freind , FRS, was an English physician.-Life:He was younger brother of Robert Freind , headmaster of Westminster School, and was born at Croton in Northamptonshire...	20/03/1712	1675 - 26 July 1728
Cypriano Ribeiro Freire	31/03/1791	1749–1814
John Freke John Freke John Freke was an English surgeon. Together with Percival Pott he was instrumental in separating the profession of surgeon from that of barber.Freke was the son of a rural minister from Ockford Fitzpaine, Dorset...	06/11/1729	1688 - 7 November 1756
William Freman	27/03/1735
Nicolas Fremont d’Ablancourt	12/11/1684	5 September 1621 – 6 October 1696
Carlos Silvestre Frenk Carlos Frenk Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk is a Mexican-British cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation....	27/05/2004
George Edward Frere	08/06/1837	29 January 1807 - 3 December 1887
John Frere John Frere John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.-Life:...	06/06/1771	10 August 1740 - 12 July 1807
Henry Bartle Edward Frere	03/05/1877	? March 1815 - 29 May 1884
Victor Beaufort Vabres de Fresars	r Beaufort	See Vabres de
James William Freshfield James William Freshfield James William Freshfield was an English lawyer and founder of the international law firm of Freshfields. He was also a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament, representing the seats of Penryn and Boston.-Early life:...	10/04/1834	c 1775 - 27 June 1864
Frederick Gerard Friedlander	20/03/1980	25 December 1917 - 20 May 2001
Matthew Curling Friend Matthew Curling Friend Matthew Curling Friend . The son of John Friend of Ramsgate and Mary Curling of the Isle of Thanet. He joined the Royal Navy as a Midshipman in July 1806 and was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1815. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars he was put on half pay. Friend then pursued scientific...	16/03/1820
Richard Henry Friend	11/03/1993
Otto Robert Frisch Otto Robert Frisch Otto Robert Frisch , Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.- Overview :...	18/03/1948	1 October 1904 - 22 September 1979
Paolo Frisi Paolo Frisi Paolo Frisi was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.-Biography:Born in Melegnano, Frisi was educated at the local Barnabite monastery and afterwards in that of Padua...	09/06/1757	13 April 1728 - 22 November 1784
Karl John Friston	18/05/2006
Christopher Donald Frith Chris Frith Christopher Donald Frith is professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London and a Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark...	11/05/2000
Uta Frith Uta Frith Uta Frith FRS FBA is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues. Her book 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma'...	26/05/2005
Felix Eugen Fritsch Felix Eugen Fritsch Felix Eugen Fritsch FRS was a British biologist.Fritsch started his career at the University of Munich before moving to research at University College London and also the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1932 and won their Darwin Medal in 1950...	05/05/1932	26 April 1879 - 23 May 1954
Joannes Sigismundus Augustus Frobenius	05/02/1730	fl 1730 - 1740
William James Frodsham	10/01/1839	1778 - 28 June 1850
Albrecht Frohlich Albrecht Fröhlich Albrecht Fröhlich FRS was a mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers....	18/03/1976	22 May 1916 - 8 November 2001
Herbert Frohlich Herbert Fröhlich Herbert Fröhlich was a German-born British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society....	15/03/1951	9 December 1905 - 23 January 1991
Percival Frost Percival Frost -Life:Frost was born at Kingston upon Hull on 1 September 1817, the second son of Charles Frost. He was educated at Beverley and Oakham, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in October 1835, graduating B.A. as second wrangler in 1839 and M.A. in 1842...	07/06/1883	1 September 1817 - 5 June 1898
Robert Edmund Froude	07/06/1894	22 December 1846 - 19 March 1924
William Froude William Froude William Froude was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships and for predicting their stability....	02/06/1870	28 November 1810 - 4 May 1879
Edward Fry Edward Fry Sir Edward Fry GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS , was a judge in the British Court of Appeal and also an arbitrator on the International Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was a Quaker, son of Joseph Fry and Mary Ann Swaine....	13/12/1883	4 November 1827 - 18 October 1918
Geoffrey Fryer	16/03/1972
John Fryer	23/03/1698	1650 - 31 March 1733
John Claud Fortescue Fryer	18/03/1948	13 August 1886 - 22 November 1948
Vivian Ernest Fuchs	23/05/1974	12 February 1908 - 11 November 1999 Statute
William Fullarton William Fullarton William Fullarton was a Scottish colonial administrator and Member of Parliament.-Early life:He was only son of William Fullarton of Fullarton, a wealthy Ayrshire gentleman. After spending some time at the Edinburgh University he was sent to travel on the continent with Patrick Brydone, at one...	17/06/1779	1754 - 13 February 1808
John Fuller	30/11/1704
John Fuller	09/03/1727	1706-1755 MP Boroughbridge
Rose Fuller Rose Fuller Rose Fuller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1777.Fuller was the son of John Fuller, of Brightling, Sussex, and his wife Elizabeth Rose, daughter of Fulke Rose of Jamaica. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and was also a student at Leyden in the...	20/04/1732
William Fullerton	22/06/1732
Stephen Byram Furber Steve Furber Professor Stephen Byram Furber CBE, FRS, FREng is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester but is probably best known for his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC...	09/05/2002
William Sefton Fyfe	20/03/1969

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James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:...	18/12/1884	13 February 1813 - 14 April 1895
Jean Gaston Darboux Jean Gaston Darboux Jean-Gaston Darboux was a French mathematician.-Life:Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis . He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.Darboux received his Ph.D...	27/11/1902	? 13 August 1842 - ? 25
James Edwin Darnell James E. Darnell James Edwin Darnell Jr. is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology....	14/03/1996
Gabriel Auguste Daubree Gabriel Auguste Daubrée Gabriel Auguste Daubrée was a French geologist.Daubrée was born at Metz, and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris...	12/05/1881	25 June 1814 - 29 May 1896
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye	25/05/1933	24 March 1884 - 2 November 1966
Joseph Decaisne Joseph Decaisne Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist.Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris...	13/12/1877	11 March 1807 - 08
Charles Eugene Delaunay	29/04/1869	9 April 1816 - 5 August 1872
Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck	20/04/1967	4 September 1906 - 10 March 1981
Rene Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...	06/06/1833	15 February 1750 - 16 November 1833
Henri Alexandre Deslandres	05/05/1921	24 July 1853 - 15 January 1948
Cesar Mansuete Despretz César-Mansuète Despretz César-Mansuète Despretz was a chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May 1863. He was Chaire de physique at the Faculté des sciences in Paris.*...	19/06/1862	10 May 1792 - 15 March 1863
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet	14/06/1855	13 February 1805 - 5 May 1859
Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky	08/04/1965	25 January 1900 - 18 December 1975
Felix Anton Dohrn	01/06/1899	29 September 1840 - 26 September 1909
Gerhard Domagk Gerhard Domagk Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine – the first commercially available antibiotic – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the...	23/04/1959	30 October 1895 - 24 April 1964
Franz Cornelius Donders Franciscus Donders -External links:* B. Theunissen. , F.C. Donders: turning refracting into science, @ History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands.* in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science* P. Eling, , Geneeskundige en fysioloog....	14/06/1866	27 May 1818 - 24 March 1889
Nicole Marthe Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin is a developmental biologist, famed for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems....	29/06/1989
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist. He was the father of Alfred and Richard Dove.-Early Years:...	21/11/1850	6 October 1803 - 4 April 1879
Renato Dulbecco Renato Dulbecco Renato Dulbecco is an Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase. In 1973 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle. Dulbecco was the recipient of the Selman A...	25/04/1974
Pierre Louis Dulong Pierre Louis Dulong Pierre Louis Dulong was a French physicist and chemist, remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit. He worked on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases....	23/11/1826	12 February 1785 – 19 July 1838
Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas	18/06/1840	? 15 July 1800 - 11 April 1884
Christian Rene Marie Joseph de Duve	30/06/1988

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Setsuro Ebashi Setsuro Ebashi was a Japanese biophysicist. He was Professor Emeritus of National Institute for Physiological Sciences. He was awarded the 1972 Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, the 1999 International Prize for Biology, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, and an Order of Culture....	21/04/1977	31 August 1922 – 17 July 2006
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...	27/04/1837	19 April 1795 - 27 June 1876
Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...	30/06/1910	14 March 1854 - 20 August 1915, immunology, haematology, Nobel Prize (1908)
Manfred Eigen Manfred Eigen Manfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.-Career:...	03/05/1973
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...	05/05/1921	14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955, German-U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1921)
Willem Einthoven Willem Einthoven Willem Einthoven was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it....	29/04/1926	21 May 1860 - 28 September 1927
Thomas Eisner Thomas Eisner Thomas Eisner was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology."He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology...	15/05/1997	evolutionary biology
Gertrude Belle Elion	09/03/1995	23 January 1918 - 21 February 1999 Foreign Member, medicine, Nobel Prize (1988)
John Franklin Enders John Franklin Enders John Franklin Enders was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."-Life:...	20/04/1967	11 February 1897 - 8 September 1985 Foreign Member
Paul Erdős Paul Erdos Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...	29/06/1989	26 March 1913 - 20 September 1996, Hungarian-born Israeli U.S. mathematician
Georg Adolf Erman Georg Adolf Erman Georg Adolf Erman was a German physicist.Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die...	27/11/1873	12 May 1806 - 12 July 1877
Paul Erman Paul Erman Paul Erman was a German physicist from Berlin, Brandenburg. He was the son of the historian Jean Pierre Erman , author of Histoire des refugis....	08/03/1827	30 February 1764 - 11 October 1851 Foreign Member
Richard R. Ernst Richard R. Ernst Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy while at Varian Associates, Palo...	17/06/1993
Albert Jakob Eschenmoser Albert Eschenmoser Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss chemist working at the ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute.His work together with Lavoslav Ružička on terpenes and the postulation of squalene cyclization to form lanosterol improved the insight into steroid biosynthesis.In the early 1960s, Eschenmoser began...	26/06/1986
Ulf Svante von Euler	03/05/1973	7 February 1905 - 18 September 1983
Herbert McLean Evans Herbert McLean Evans Herbert McLean Evans was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist.He was born in Modesto, California. In 1908, he obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, eventually becoming its associate professor of anatomy...	19/04/1951	23 September 1882 - 6 March 1971
William Maurice Ewing	27/04/1972	12 May 1906 - 4 May 1974

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Name	Election Date
Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry	25/06/1931	11 June 1867 - 11 December 1945
Stanley Falkow Stanley Falkow Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at...	17/05/2007
Ugo Fano Ugo Fano Ugo Fano was an Italian American physicist, a leader in theoretical physics in the 20th century.- Biography :Ugo Fano was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Turin, Italy...	09/03/1995	29 July 1912 - 13 February 2001 physicist
Emmanuel Faure-Fremiet Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet FMRS was a French biologist.-Life:He was the son of Gabriel Fauré, and Marie Fremiet, .He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France....	25/04/1963	28 December 1883 – 6 November 1971
Tom Fenchel Tom Fenchel Tom Michael Fenchel is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist and known for, among other things, Fenchel's Law. He holds PhD and D.Sc...	17/05/2007
Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...	27/04/1950	29 September 1901 - 28 November 1954
Richard Phillips Feynman Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...	08/04/1965	12 May 1918 - 11 February 1988 physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1965)
Emil Hermann Fischer	01/06/1899	9 October 1852 - ? 14 July 1919
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau	08/04/1875	23 September 1819 - 18 September 1896
Simon Flexner Simon Flexner Simon Flexner, M.D. was a physician, scientist, administrator, and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania . He was the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation...	26/06/1919	25 March 1863 - 2 May 1946
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens	04/06/1835	? 24 April 1794 - ? 5 December 1867
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault	09/06/1864	19 September 1819 - 11 February 1868
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	11/12/1823	21 March 1768 - 16 May 1830
Alan Bicksler Fowler Alan Fowler Alan B. Fowler FMRS is an American physicist.-Life:He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in 1951, an MS in 1952, and from Harvard University with a PhD in Applied Physics, in 1958....	10/05/2001
James Franck James Franck James Franck was a German Jewish physicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Franck was born to Jacob Franck and Rebecca Nachum Drucker. Franck completed his Ph.D...	23/04/1964	26 August 1882 - 21 May 1964, German-born U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1925)
Clara Franzini-Armstrong Clara Franzini-Armstrong Clara Franzini-Armstrong FMRS is an American electron microscopist, and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania.-Life:...	10/05/2001
Daan Frenkel Daan Frenkel Daan Frenkel is a Dutch computational physicist.Frenkel has carried out the largest part of his research at the FOM institute AMOLF in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. Professor Frenkel is one of the select foreign members of the British Royal Society and has been awarded the title...	18/05/2006
Augustin Jean Fresnel	09/06/1825	10 May 1788 - 14 July 1827
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...	25/06/1936	6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis
Karl Johann Freudenberg Karl Johann Freudenberg Karl Johann Freudenberg FMRS was a German chemist.-Life:His grandfather Carl Johann Freudenberg was a tanner and businessman, who in 1849, with Heinrich Christian Heintze, founded Freudenberg IT....	25/04/1963	29 January 1886 - 3 April 1983
Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich Herbert Freundlich Herbert Max Finlay Freundlich FRS was a German chemist.His father was Jewish descendable German, and his mother was from Scotland...	11/05/1939	28 January 1880 - ? 29 March 1941
Albert Frey-Wyssling Albert Frey-Wyssling Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology and helped initiate the study of molecular biology....	09/05/1957	8 November 1900 - 30 August 1988
Jacques Friedel Jacques Friedel Jacques Friedel FMRS is a French physicist and material scientist.-Life:His great-grand father Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grand-father Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the...	30/06/1988
Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries -External links:*, Authors of fungal names, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.*...	08/04/1875	15 August 1794 - 08
Karl von Frisch Karl von Frisch Karl Ritter von Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz....	29/04/1954	20 November 1886 - 12 June 1982
Kenichi Fukui Kenichi Fukui Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist.Kenichi Fukui was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions...	29/06/1989	4 October 1918 - 9 January 1998

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  William Feller
  William Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller , was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.-Early life and education:...
  
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